Word: teem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mighty Gut. A termite digests cellulose with the help of the swarms of protozoa (one-celled animals) which teem in its guts. Since termites reduce cellulose (the toughest part of plants) to humus and provide food for new plants, their destruction of wood is really a vital part of the vegetative cycle of growth and decay...
With a change in problem plans, the Varsity soccer teem will meet the Royal Marinen of H.M.S. Newcastle on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock innate of tomorrow is announced. The championship British team will afford the Varsity is warm-up tray be fore its official opened this Saturday against Tuffs...
Twenty of the most brilliant families of New England teem with one form of insanity: manic-depressive psychosis. Such is the opinion, published last week by famed Boston Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson. His sources: century-old case records in McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass., one of the oldest private hospitals in America...
...have become soft and soggy with temporary abundance. Even the enormous debt stirs only the few. We are satisfied with a promised security, unearned and easy. Our thoughts teem with greed and every man for himself. May I say that is not the American way. Our country was not founded upon those ideas, but by striving and toiling and saving and building-a unity among men with a definite goal-America...
Last week hardworking, hearty Painter Fiene finished his most ambitious job: two murals for the auditorium of Manhattan's Central High School of Needle Trades. Biggest uninterrupted murals in the U. S. (17 ft. by 65 ft. each), they teem with 200-odd overneat, idealized figures (53 portraits), tracing the history of the needletrades industry, from immigrant and sweatshop to labor unions and built-in swimming pools...