Word: scum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must see with open eyes that we are ruled by militarists who arose from banditry and from the scum of society, and whose education and training never qualified them to rule...
Under the microscope a drop of pond scum can give hours of delightful study. What feels between the fingers like slime is, microscopically, an open lake crowded with queer vegetable and animal life...
...Dutchman, Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), who invented the microscope, spent the last 50 years of his life studying and describing biological scum. Others have extended his work, until now scientists have a very wide knowledge of what lives on earth...
...things in the water are magnified 100 times, or cubically a million times. What is silky green scum in ponds of spirogyra, is reproduced as great, slender stems with tubular strands. Water thyme has slender pointed leaves and graceful translucent green stems. Bladderwort carries little traps at the ends of stems. Really they are the size of pin heads. Enlarged they are three to four inches in diameter. When an animalcule touches the bladder (utricle) a flap snaps upwards; the beastie slips into the pouch; the trap springs shut...
Said Sailor Michael Frane: "Throughout the whole period I did not leave the single room in which we were kept, together with robbers, bootleggers and the scum of the country. I did not have a single hour's exercise all the time, nor a single change of underclothing for over five months. Although I had pneumonia and Stanley West, my companion, was even worse off, we were given only bread and a piece of butter the size of a quarter, and a can of green tea holding about a cupful each day. For that the prison commissioners...