Word: shrivelled
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...coast and islands of North Carolina he had found eel grass coming back. A flowering saltwater plant, it normally mats the Atlantic coast's shallow-mud flats from Florida to Greenland. In 1931 it began to disappear. Simultaneously many a brant, Canada goose and black duck began to shrivel and die. Eel grass is the staple winter food of brant, important to other waterfowl...
They'll snow hot devils in and make them cool. Your breath will melt and shrivel it.?Now puff, you puffers...
Blood Vessels. Two very similar diseases of the leg arteries got much consideration last week-intermittent claudication (limping) and thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's Disease). In both exercise causes intense agony. The arteries in claudication shrivel, prevent circulation. In the other case the walls of the arteries are inflamed and swollen until blood cannot get through...
...ruled that because of the "close personal contact between the teacher and the taught," the school's "money income must be ascribed to the activities of the Misses Howland and Brownell, its sole stockholders, for without these two women's daily, personal work, the school would simply shrivel...
...despair ingly watched their acres brown under a relentless sun. Even the potent Federal Farm Board was not potent enough to bring the relief that only long soaking rains could give. Corn tassels burned. Live stock on the ranges drank from dwindling water holes. Truck gardeners saw their vegetables shrivel up and die. In many a city officials worried over the water supply. Forest fires licked menacingly through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho, California. Greatest in a score of years had been the July drought...