Word: oystering
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...When an oyster egg hatches it produces a larva. The larva eventually "settles" and cements itself as a "spat" to a clean submerged stone or old shell, where it grows until big enough to eat. Just what makes the spats settle has always been an ostreiculture problem. Last week Herbert F. Prytherch of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries gave an answer, in Science...
...oyster beds of Milford Harbor, Conn., where the Indian River empties into Long Island Sound, he found the spats settling only at low tide. That is when the salt sound water is most diluted by the fresh river water. Something in the river water evidently makes the very young oysters want to nestle to a stone or shell. By tedious eliminations, Mr. Prytherch determined that this settling factor is a trace of dissolved copper. Injurious to plant and animal life when administered in large quantities, copper sulphate may now become one of the tools of oyster farming. And copper (also...
...Kuhn, Loeb's rise to its present high position in international banking. Son Schiff received a diploma at Yale in 1925, went to Oxford. Later he worked for Bankers Trust Co., then for Missouri Pacific Railroad. He likes horses, entertains quietly on the big Schiff estate at Oyster...
...chorister, Francis Stacy Holmes of West Roxbury; for Ivy Orator, Ogden White, of Oyster Bay, Long Island; for Senior Class Album Committee, Geoffrey Parsons, Jr., of Rye, New York, Frank Edwin Remick, of Quincy, and Edward Kuhn Straus, of New York City...
...Naturalist-Author Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), who learned to love animals while driving his mother's cow to pasture, gave a warbler and some hawk eggs. Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was interested in the society because he liked hunting and fishing. In 1837 he contributed two stuffed oyster-catchers, gawky birds with gaudy red beaks, black and white bodies. Another famed member was tall, smiling Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-73), Swiss-American naturalist who called every animal and flower "a thought...