Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hulot's method of attack is a subtle one: he doesn't really pursue his prey; it pursues him. In Mon Oncle, Modern Times closes in on the good-natured Hulot (played by M. Tati, who also wrote and directed the film) in the form of a paunchy brother-in-law. Brother-in-law is an officer of an ultra-modern company which manufactures plastic hoses and similar useful items, and he has constructed for himself, wife and son a house with every conceivable inconvenience...
...same as they were today--only the supporting cast had changed. The spot was rain-swept Franklin Field, Philadelphia, and a Harvard team, fresh from a defeat at the hands of Dartmouth and in the midst of one of its worst seasons on record, was expected to be easy prey for the Quaker eleven. And the star, just as today, was Boulris...
...Epidemiologist Leonard M. Schuman, the more he has to learn about controlling them. And this circular motion has speeded up enormously. Up to 1947 only 60 viruses had been listed as causing disease in man, and a mere 20 of these singled out the human species as their prime prey. The rest, like the one that causes eastern equine encephalitis (TIME, Oct. 5), normally attack lower animals, infect man accidentally, said Dr. Schuman...
Pandora's Box. Then the isolation of Coxsackie virus by New York's Dr. Gilbert Dalldorf (TIME, Oct. 19) in 1947 opened a Pandora's box of viruses. By now, 76 new types of viruses that prey on man have been described-more than all the viruses of any kind recognized before...
...would be easy for the varsity to set its sights on second place, because Princeton should be easy prey. But McCurdy and the team are aiming for the top, and only a victory over Yale can make the meet--and the season--a success...