Word: mussells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Krogh pointed out that the oxygen intake among animals varies enormously according to bodily activity. Per kilogram of body weight, the sluggish mussel uses only 22 cubic centimetres of oxygen per minute while the busy bee consumes 17,000 cc. Man, whose activity rate varies considerably, takes...
...insists that all analogies between genuine primitive art and the drawings or modelings of children are unsuccessful. Savage kingdoms in Africa and the South Seas, for example, developed through settled centuries a mastery of their native materials and deep traditions of style. Natives in New Ireland did carving with mussel shells which no 20th Century artist could imitate with his tools. African tribes smelted alloys of metal in blast furnaces before white men knew of such processes, made adzes, chisels and gouges for their skilled carvers, cast fine bronzes at Benin...
...Walter E. Jenkins, Jr.; Stanley H. Kapner; Bartow Kelly; Walter N. Kernan, 2d.; John A. King, Jr.; Harold E. Kirkby; Gifford Kittredge; Shubrick T. Kothe; Charles D. Lutz, Jr.; William A. MacIntyre, Jr.; Arthur Marks; Harold F. Mason, Jr.; Myron L. Mayer; Francis D. Millet; Alexander E. O. Mussel, Jr.; William F. Murray; Harlan W. Newell...
...woman was going to have a baby (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935). Called bitterling, the female fish has a small tube protruding from her underside. When the bitterling is about to lay eggs, the tube lengthens and enables her to deposit her ova in the siphon of a fresh water mussel, among whose gills they ripen and hatch. Drs. Aaron Elias Kanter, Carl Philip Bauer & Arthur Herman Klawans of the University of Chicago discovered that a bitterling will stretch her ovipositor, whether or not she needs to lay eggs, if her bowl of water receives as little as one teaspoonful...
Councillor Henri Espadrille (consulting a dictionary): "The snail is a castropod mollusk, or shellfish (which are not fish), like the whelk, the slug, the mussel, the limpet, the oyster. Messieurs, we can regulate the snail as seafood, for he is really an oyster...