Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease. As laboratory animals they are therefore incapable of shedding much light on human nutrition. Rats, on the other hand, have the same eating habits as man. They need the same minerals and vitamins, fall prey to many of the same diseases. On them new serums, drugs and poisons are tried out. More experimental work has been done with the white, pink-eyed rat (Mus Norvegicus albinus) than with the meek guinea pig - more, in fact, than with all other mammals combined. If men are ever able to thrive on synthetic food...
Ruki knew nothing outside the life of his village, and could not imagine wanting to know. But he fell an easy prey to the decoy who chattered of the wonderful rewards to be earned by working on a white man's plantation. Long before he got to Sumatra he repented of his greed and wanted to go home, but because he had signed his mark to the contract it was too late. On the teak plantation Ruki, like most of his unfortunate fellows, lived the brutal life of a slave. His woman was taken from him. given...
...mighty bear has momentarily ceased his savage growls. He is still stalking his rightful prey, but with a sort of grim humor he has reared himself upon his hind legs and is waving his murderous paw with a delicate and artistic grace. To be sure, Gulliver is brutally blunt at times. For example, when he suspects that he is dealing with a species of miniature greed and exploitation, he roars out a stentorian refutation of the whining little fawners' claims, and sends them quaking and tumbling before the blast. There's nothing shilly-shally about "The New Gulliver"; it takes...
...Liverpool waited some 100 British newshawks and a score from the continent, ready with tugs, speedboats, airplanes and racing automobiles to circumvent any Lindbergh attempt to escape from their questions and cameras. Held back at the dock by police, they gave chase in automobiles, were balked when their prey holed up in a Liverpool hotel. Angrily they haunched down in the lobby, prepared to pounce at the first opportunity...
Cagily the protectors of the peace surrounded the House, leaving not avenue of escape of their unsuspecting prey. The desperado, however, seemed little disturbed. He merely kept on his peaceful way, tugging now and then at the fence running along the edge of the roof...