Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 1/10 by 1/20 of an inch. It is light yellowish or light greyish brown. The hatching larvae crawl up grass or weed stems and attach themselves to a passing animal. There they grow to adulthood in about 30 days, living on the blood of the host. They mate on the host, the female drops to the ground, lays her eggs, and dies. Fever induced by the tick kills cattle, stunts them, lowers their milk flow, damages their skins and hides...
...plans that the British Government is tireless in proposing. It was not to the Japanese Ambassador that Sir Hughe was rushed by the rest of his party (all uninjured) but to the Country Hospital in Shanghai's International Settlement, where a U. S. Marine Navy Pharmacist's Mate Horace Albert Thomson obliged with a blood transfusion. Instead of making a formal apology the Japanese rebuked the British Ambassador for not having a Union Jack spread on the roof of his car. The attitude of Whitehall to this attack on the sacrosanct person of their Ambassador...
...prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come to the rescue...
Mice are adult at the age of twelve weeks, "old men" at two years. Six weeks after birth they are quite tame and can be taught tricks (climbing ladders, working treadmills). They are ready to mate at the age of seven weeks, but wise breeders wait until the buck has reached ten weeks, the doe twelve. Each buck has six wives at a time, but every couple of months all but one doe are taken out to give the buck a rest. A mouse is pregnant 19 to 21 days, litters are from five to ten mouselets. Bucks are never...
...Garnett uses for comedy the same form of physical surprise which a moment earlier he was using for horror, it is inept. But the action is generally lusty and well-integrated. Best minor role: Mickey Rooney as the resolute, bewildered cabin boy whose loyalty veers hazardously between the brutal mate and the romantic skipper...