Word: preying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporate history few changes have been so abrupt, so disheartening as the performance of American Agricultural Chemical Corp. In 1920 American Agricultural was a market-leader earning $11.21 a share. In 1921 it lost $38.60 a share. Since then, prey to fluctuating fertilizer prices, it has sometimes shown small profits, usually reported losses. Last week, however, it girded itself for an attempt to come back...
...Nevertheless they ended by falling prey to a species of delirium; a fever clothed the room in deforming mirrors. Then it was that Agatha grew gloomy, and was led to ask herself if this mysterious drug, however natural it was, might not prove to be quite as exacting as any other, and if all drugs did not end with turning...
Natural history books call them "jaguars" but "tiger" is the local name for the big mottled cats of Brazil, which grow nearly as big (300 Ibs.) and almost as strong as the biggest cats of Bengal. Brazilian cattle-raisers are glad when a tiger is killed. They prey on beeves. Few ranchers bother to hire tiger men and the state pays no bounties but any rancher will outfit a hunter with horses and food. The hunter's income then derives from the sale of skins ($40 each, f.o.b. the jungle) and live cubs ($400 each). Also there are plenty...
...mind and that is to set himself safely on the throne at all costs. In his wooing of Lady Anne, widow of Edward, Prince of Wales, whose blood is scarcely dry on his sword, Gloster presents his suit with all of the cunning of a snake charming its prospective prey. The lady assents, and as she departs Mr. Leiber gives a very emphatic sneer and a disparaging remark on the constancy of women. All through the play he uses men as his tools and then throws them aside with no compunction. There is no excitement about it; they have done...