Word: preys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...algal culture has its drawbacks: it cannot be grown effectively in open ponds or tanks, where it quickly runs out of carbon dioxide or falls prey to microscopic predators. The best way to handle it is to circulate it rapidly through wide, flat tubes of thin plastic. The cells utilize sunlight most efficiently when they are exposed to its full intensity for only a fraction of a second at a time. So the flow of the culture must be turbulent, bringing the cells to the surface for a short time, then carrying them down into shaded depths. The "crop...
Burke saw man in "a state of nature" as a prey to his own evil, violence and greed. Civilization was the process of holding the evil in check by treasuring experience from generation to generation, slowly building upon those advances which seemed in harmony with God's will as to human order. "Temporary possessors and life-renters [must not be] unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity," Burke wrote. "By [the] unprincipled facility of changing the state as often . . . as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain...
...many people, says Maurer, prefer to turn away from the knobby facts of life, and fall prey to the notion that there must be some great plan or some carefully dovetailed set of plans . . . that is bound to save everybody. Thus there have been waves of enthusiasm for religion as a purely social code, for religion as a distant other-worldly law. and for religion as a sort of snug little hot-water bottle carried in everybody's vest pocket...
...first thing the average man will notice on walking from the marble staircase into this lofty vault is a superfluity of girls. Cliffedwellers, stationed at the numerous tables, sit waiting for their prey. Some pretend to study weighty tomes; others idly thumb the pages of Real Screen Romances, patiently awaiting the right moment. Skeptics, doubting the efficacy of their "Got a match?" technique, are likely to become social theorists on analysis of the Reference Room marriage record...
...first he had to break his holiday to make a crowded, one-day round trip to Washington to deliver his foreign policy speech (see above) before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. And on the eve of his departure, he fell prey to that humiliating and painful malady-a severe case of upset stomach. There was no telling exactly what had caused the attack-although it seemed likely it was set off by the savory, highly spiced bass dish the President ate for lunch-but he suffered sharp abdominal pain, and slept little. Next morning, when Mamie bade...