Word: oystering
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...perfect pearl, formed not in an oyster but in a coconut, was exhibited last week in Florida by Botanist David Fairchild. One of a dozen found in 9,000,000 East Indian coconuts, the pearl began (scientists believe) when a sprout was unable to force its way through one of the three pores in a germinating nut. Like a sand grain in an oyster, the sprout was then encrusted with layers of calcium carbonate-even though chemists have never found this compound in either the nut's milk or kernel...
...novel. Self-assured but not glib, he respects and admires the English language, has a plentiful supply of ideas, puts enough complexity and contradiction into his characters to keep them from being stereotypes. It is like the creation of a culture pearl: an irritant is carefully introduced into the oyster, which then obediently builds up a globe of pearly substance, as smooth and gleaming to the casual glance as the real thing...
...year-old Canadian Minister to the U.S., and went to his annual Warm Springs turkey dinner, twice postponed by the crisis. He did well by the 4,300 calories (twice the volume of three ordinary meals) from gingered fresh fruit in cider through roast young torn turkey and oyster-corn stuffing to pumpkin...
Died. Philip James Roosevelt, 49, banker (Roosevelt & Son), yachtsman, second and fifth cousin respectively of Theodore Sr. and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; of drowning (presumably after a heart attack) while sailing a dinghy on Oyster...
Married. Sarah Alden Derby, granddaughter of the late President Theodore Roosevelt; and Robert Tileston Gannett II, Harvard Law School student; at Oyster...