Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...male amazes observers and the female by standing on the tips of trees making extraordinary sounds and gestures. In winter it feeds exclusively on pine needles, tastes of turpentine. The short, iridescent, curling tail feathers, highly prized for Tyrolean hat ornaments, though called capercailzie plumes, actually come from its smaller cousin the blackcock...
...play on. Each music stand will have six lights: a white one for the first beat in a measure, blue for the successive beats; red to mean soft, green to mean loud, red and green together to hold, lights out to stop. Besides these each stand will have two smaller lights to convey individual messages to the players, say when the conductor wants the kettledrummer to pummel out a thundering crescendo...
...wrote, while custodian of enemy property, he had found a pile of packing cases in a German warehouse in the East African lake town of Bukoba. One "was slightly packed with sawdust and had a smaller case inside. This also was very well made and strongly fastened. When I opened this the contents proved to be a native's skull. Whether this was the skull of Mkwawa I cannot say, but very great care had been taken in packing it." He concluded that he did not know what became of the skull, because he left it where...
...ancestor-worship. It contains little of theology save belief in immortality, but acquired a religious guise during its long subordination to Buddhism. There are two forms of Shintoism, one non-sectarian and ancillary to the State, the other sectarian and divided into 13 officially-recognized groups, plus many smaller, unofficial ones. Keynote of Shinto belief is to venerate the Sun Goddess, Great Ancestress of the Imperial House. To pray for the welfare of the Japanese Emperor is to pray for the welfare of the whole nation. Next thing is to seek Cleanliness and Purity (washing the hands and if possible...
...pregnant woman should not attempt to ''eat for two." She should gain 15 to 20 lb. during pregnancy, but not more than 25 lb. Fasting will not make the baby smaller. Its size is largely beyond the mother's control, though moderate exercise may help...