Word: subsistance
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...pollen trap also enables apiarists to increase their swarms. In winter bees subsist on stored-up honey and pollen. A beekeeper who carefully gleans bee-dropped pollen, then feeds it back to his swarms in more generous quantities than the bees themselves would store it, will find his insects from 25 to 100% more numerous at winter...
...voice like a fog-horn and--what's worse--is so pretty he detracts from the allure of Madeleine Carroll, who is growing kind of fat herself. The story involves a colony of Negroes living on a subtropical island who, we couldn't figure out exactly why, can't subsist without a descendant of the white founders watching over them from the ancestral mansion. For two hours, Madeleine chases Stirling from cave to bamboo-tree, limping rather creditably through a script so bad that it makes even the talented Flora Robson appear ridiculous...
...vitamin is extracted, have been scarce since war broke out in 1939. So Arizona's three to four thousand acres of carrots (whose harvesting began last fortnight) may be the answer to every aviation command's problem of preventing night blindness in its flyers, who tend to subsist largely on peanuts and candy...
...hopes to keep out in 1941, Colonel Rowntree cites the hypothetical case of a 30-year-old clerk who comes from a large family, has good health but exaggerates his minor ailments, goes to bed for three or four days when he has a slight cold, may choose to subsist for days on unbleached barley and skim milk, has few friends, neither drinks, smokes nor pursues women. Colonel Rowntree says any good psychiatrist would keep such a man out of the Army...
...Truth about Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, occupied France was pretty much the hellish picture which John Cudahy painted. According to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, continental Europe has enough food to subsist through the winter. But the food is not where it is most needed, in war-riven Europe probably will not be evenly distributed. Result: actual or near starvation for millions. Said the British last week: "Belgium and the other occupied countries will have to make up their shortages from Germany. . . ." Said a German broadcaster: "Who in the world ever expected a victor to provide his enemies...