Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real trouble with women, Dr. Dakin believes, is mental and emotional mal adjustment to industry. Unused to machinery, they are easy prey to suggestions that machines are bad for their "delicate nervous systems." They expect sympathy and special attention. They are easily up set by troubles at home. They use muscles tensely from fear of failure or excessive determination to do well...
...wolves may find their prey wearing sheep's clothing next winter. A chemical process which makes sheep pelts look like expensive fur was announced last week...
...great scientific discoveries of World War II. It is an insecticide called DDT. DDT stopped a typhus epidemic in Naples. It promises to wipe out the mosquito and malaria, to liquidate the household fly, cockroach and bedbug, to control some of the most damaging insects that prey on the world's crops. Lieut. Colonel A. L. Ahnfeldt, of the U.S. Surgeon General's office, exclaimed last week: "DDT will be to preventive medicine what Lister's discovery of antiseptics was to surgery...
...basketball upset the Bellboys fell prey to the Gold Coasters yesterday, 46 to 22. The contest was hard-fought throughout, particularly toward the end when players on both teams became over-enthusiastic and fouled their opponents repeatedly. The time and place of the play-off will probably be announced by Coach Adolph Samborski today...
...More than ever, Red submarines could prey on Germany's shipping in the Baltic...