Word: oystering
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...rest of the zoological world may still be in the dark regarding the methods used by the starfish in a successful attack on an oyster (TIME, Dec. 28), but here on the banks of the Raritan any attentive zoology student can offer enlightenment to the bewildered-for the true facts of the case have been presented to us by Professor Thurlow C. Nelson, who for years has been a leading authority on oyster life...
...soon as a starfish attaches itself to an oyster the latter closes its shell, and (as already has been demonstrated) because of a powerful system of interlocking muscles, it is then able to withstand the application of a pressure greater than any commonly attributed to the strength of a starfish...
...allowed to remain undisturbed, however, the oyster will relax its muscles slightly, opening the shell and drawing in some of the surrounding water. The starfish, in the meantime, has been secreting an acid digestive juice in large quantities from great glands which fill all of its five arms. This fluid acts as an "anesthetic" on the muscles of the oyster, rendering them flabby and useless, after which it becomes an easy matter for the starfish to devour its prey...
...guarded hotel above Casablanca's grey-green harbor Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt talked for ten days. The continent of Europe was their oyster, to be pried open, then stabbed with all the armed might at their command. How they would gain the opening, when & where they would strike, were the most important decisions...
...revealed an ancient Indian fish trap of 65,000 stakes, covering two acres, made with sassafras and sycamore trees which are now rare near Boston and argue a warmer climate. This evidence of higher New England temperatures in the past was substantiated by the finding of a 14-inch oyster shell...