Word: preys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provide 500,000,000 catchable fish? There are 291 federal, state and private game-fish hatcheries, turning out an average of 1,100,000,000 infant game fish annually. But infant game fish are prey to their cannibal elders. The loss of infant salmon is 99.77%. What is needed, what Mr. Hoover and his men have proved the value of, is fish nurseries, where infants may become fingerlings. Nurseries increase the infants' survival chances to "about...
...before but its presence is subtler, more diffused. The author's scrutiny falls, not on one but on many personalities. Now, in her brilliant offensive on the human soul, she does not perpetrate an open advance. Weaving, stalking, spying from thickets, she discovers the nature of her prey. The actual capture she leaves to those who, reading her book, are her companions in the chase...
...ways of court procedure and political preferment. Doubtless, too, it will occur to some analyst that the case of Judge Thayer, laboring for years under the siress of one single controversy, and likewise the case of Madeiros, seeking to make a confession which would baffle the lawyers, are good prey for psychological discussion...
...cousin-at-large of the "hijacker." The "hijacker" confines his activities to the bootlegging profession. He is the strong boy who lets his victim run rum, then robs him of it-or buys it at a low price with violence. "Muscle men" regard all weaker criminals as their prey. A "muscle man" exploit that came to light last week in Chicago, was the chaining of one Sappho Jo Lawro and his partner, one Jakie Adler, proprietors of the Midnight Frolics Cafe, to iron bedsteads, and keeping them there for five days at pistol-point, until they paid over...
...Indian princes was a statement, last week, by Director-Professor Heck of the Berlin Zoo: "To explain the enormous number of wild beasts killed by native Indian princes during a single hunt is most simple. On the night before a great hunt the haunts of the beasts of prey, especially lions, are strewn with meats containing morphine. When, next day, the drugged beasts are hunted they prove easy game...