Word: preying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...According to the Hidayah all quadrupeds that seize their prey with their teeth, all birds which seize it with their talons are unlawful because the Prophet prohibited mankind from eating them. Hyenas, foxes, elephants, weasels, pelicans, kites, carrion crows, ravens, crocodiles, otters, asses, mules, wasps and in general all insects are forbidden."-Dictionary of Islam...
...Nobel Peace Prizes, not one went to an Italian. Wrote the editor: "Fascismo wants justice for itself and others and has no ax to grind under false pretenses of peace. . . . [Referring to the Nobel award of Vice President Dawes]. Some nations unable to bear the burdens of victory fell prey to so-called economists who were nothing more than agents of international finance. The Dawes Plan aims to give the great War the judicial verdict of a bankruptcy trial. Where is there peace in all this? The Dawes Plan has nothing in common with peace...
Citizens of Rio de Janeiro fortified themselves for the worst and visited the Zoological Gardens last week. There, in a caged watertank, lay 24 feet and 352 pounds of mottled horror. Hunters had stalked the jungle for nine months. Wary of their prey they had laid a great bait. At last he had come, eunectes murinus, the snatcher, coiling dangerously out of a dark stream. They took him after he had gorged and lay inert. Natives clustered about chattering, "Sucuri! Sucuri!" (local term for a reptile). They dreaded the monster as do all hunters save immediately after its meal, which...
...whales, beavers; and bearing its young alive (viviparous) instead of laying eggs (oviparous). Like its cousins it is at home in trees, but more often it lies submerged in a water-hole, with only the eyes above water. It strikes dead with a hammering head blow or seizes its prey in its jaws: secures the carcass in a coil of its body; constricts, crushing the carcass to a pulp; swallows the morsel
Students are urged by the Phillips Brooks House to aid this charity by contributing old books, old hats, old suits, or any of their unnecessary heirlooms. Anything antedated is legitimate prey for the social service men. Trucks will call at each dormitory to collect the booty...