Word: preys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week bellicose Italian yelps had begun to sound like those of a hungry jackal that wants to feed but is kept from his prey by a wolf. All week long the tension mounted. Italian liners' sailings were canceled. Italian schools were ordered to close May 31, a month earlier than usual. Crown Prince Umberto went over to the belligerent side in a speech to his troops warning them to be ready. Benito Mussolini topped off a Sunday of checking up on military preparations by appearing before several hundred Fascist youths demonstrating for war. Italy...
Sooner or later, whatever the earth produces it wrecks and reclaims. The wrecking job is done by an immense host of microorganisms. So it occurred to Dr. Rene Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute that there might exist in the earth powerful microorganisms capable of attacking disease germs that prey on humanity...
...Dubos first found a soil bacterium that is bad news for pneumococcus, the pneumonia germ. The bacterium secretes an enzyme that dissolves the germ's tough outer covering or capsule, and the stripped pneumococcus is then easy prey for the body's natural defenses, as experiments with living mice showed...
...excuses. While Berlin snarled horrendous but vague threats of reprisal at both Britain and Norway, the London Times heartily observed that the Battle of Punta del Este would have lacked a fitting sequel if, "after the lion [Spee] had been destroyed, the jackal [Altmark'] had escaped with the prey." Come now what might, Britons felt that nothing could be worse than a parade of 326 British captives through the streets of Hamburg...
...weeks ago the U. S. was bristling with anger at Britain for her illegal seizures of mail, and for holding up the Manhattan days on end at Gibraltar. Now the Government finds itself faced with the German threat that American ships which touch at Gibraltar are "legal" prey for U-boats. More and more, this country is finding that even as efficient a Neutrality Act as the one now in force can open up a lot of holes under pressure. And yet, if the President and Secretary of State, in their administration of the Act, will be true...