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Word: preyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night big business, that hungry monster without a soul, stalked his prey in the house of the Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon, in Bronson Howard's "The Henrietta...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...most dangerous aspect of the fumes, Dr. Drinker emphasized, is that the worker is apparently in good health and shows absolutely no clinical symptoms, although his liver is becoming possible prey for disease. This organ is the only one affected by the fumes but acording to the experiments, recovery from this weakening is very slow even if the worker is no longer exposed to the fumes and can avoid liver complications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Tests Reveal Liver Poisoned By Widely Used Factory Chemicals | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

Rabbit fever, or tularemia, a plaguelike infection to which rabbits and squirrels fall prey, can be transmitted to man either by an intermediate host-louse or flea-or by direct contact with an infected animal. It first appears as an ulcerous spot on human skin which is followed by swollen glands, chills & fever, sometimes by death. Within an ace of death -by rabbit fever had come 23-year-old Adelaide Dawson, released last week from the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital after two blood transfusions from persons who had recovered from the disease. Source of her infection, she thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Unfortunate Fever | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...left Cambridge shortly after 2 o'clock in automobiles. Once in Worcester, they stopped to inquire about the pioneers and were told to go to Warren. The modernized red men covered the distance, which had taken the pioneers all day, in about 15 minutes. They saw their prey just outside Warren...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Ten Students, in Indian Garb, Raid Big Pioneer Expedition | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

...several years the State of Wisconsin has given full protection to all but five of the more than 30 species of birds of prey that are residents of or that pass through our State during migration. The five unprotected species are: Cooper's hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, goshawk, great horned owl, and snowy owl. All other species have proven themselves extremely beneficial to the agriculturists. Many other States give protection to various species of birds of prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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