Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight when the Putnams, father and son, and Dan Streeter touched off their rifles simultaneously into the bulk of a polar bear on a cake of pan ice. David Putnam, 13, veteran of William Beebe's last Galapagos cruise, had been spending days in the crow's-nest sighting for bear; it is unlikely that he will neglect to mention the episode in his projected treatize: David Goes to Greenland...
Five Trillions. Whirring, chomping post-War money presses inflated the Hungarian banknote circulation to a stupendous total: five trillion korona. Peasants with a comfortable pre-War nest egg of 14,000 paper korona ($2,800) discovered that they possessed the equivalent of about $20 when the korona was at last stabilized by the able U. S. fiscal administrator of Hungary, Jeremiah Smith (TIME, July 5 et ante...
...famed grandfather, Zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley. Courtships among low forms of life were his theme: male bristleworms wriggling in groups around females; fiddler crab bridegrooms posturing on tip-claw; hunting spider suitors offering a fly, neatly wrapped in webbing, to their prospective mates; penguins presenting bits of stone for nest-material. Professor Huxley also demonstrated that a fixed ratio exists between the members and body-weight of organisms of all sizes. A moose's antlers are in the same proportion to his body as a lobster's claws to his body. Vitamins. Sir Arnold Theiler reported cows from...
...high of $213.75. Reporter Nicholl's pocket memo had added $70,000,000 to the stock market valuation of General Motors shares. Wise men of Wall Street assumed that Reporter Nicholls was no fool, that he had at least converted the information of his interview into a substantial nest egg, that his progeny would have silver spoons in their mouths. Otherwise, why had he not turned in his story before 10 a. m. when the Stock Exchange opened, instead of waiting until almost noon? Thereupon, Kenneth C. Hogate, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, announced that...
...European peasants. Storks enforce their code of sex morality by vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and described the actual execution of a stork adulteress by 50 of her incensed neighbors. They met in the air over her nest, where she sat trembling with full knowledge of her sin and the penalty. Down they swooped upon her, their plunging, hacking bills soon rending her wicked body to bits. Miss France-Harar's colleague, one Surgeon Orthman, vouched for her story, adding that he had seen three such executions...