Word: oyster
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Died. Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt, 71, widow of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; of a stroke; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. Personification of the "strenuous life" advocated by her famed father-in-law, Mrs. Roosevelt was a dedicated service worker in Europe during both World Wars, a vigorous campaigner in her husband's races for public office, a gracious Governor's lady during his terms in Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and in her 1959 memoirs, Day Before Yesterday, an able chronicler of their life together...
JAPANESE PEARL shortage is expected because of $19.5 million worth of damage from tidal waves generated by Chilean earthquakes. High seas destroyed oyster beds, disrupted the three-year growing cycle needed to turn a grain of sand into a pearl...
...University. In 1934 he got a summer job tossing hunks of blasting gelatin from a whaleboat off the East Coast so that the recorded shock waves could be used to study the sediments on the bottom. Ever since, the ocean's bottom has been Maurice Swing's oyster. But unlike most oceanographers, he is no sentimental sea dog. He dislikes the ocean itself; its water gets in his way. The best thing it does, he thinks, is to carry his instruments to interesting places...