Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subjects of the competition, which is divided into two parts, are "A Tea House," and "A Tourist's Office in a Summer Resort." The sketches are to be in water-color...
Animal Variations. Dr. Frank Collins Baker, curator of the museum of natural history of the University of Illinois, found in a Wisconsin artificial lake several species of shellfish peculiar to fresh running water. At the end of the lake where streams entered, the mollusks had remained true to type. At the other, their shells had thickened; grown stubbier. This situation apparently proved that environment produces new varieties in low-grade forms of life...
...National Academy of Science meeting at Urbana, Ill., (see above) Dr. W. C. Allee of the University of Chicago, described how certain marine worms, which normally die in fresh water, survive if a large number of them, all tangled into a ball, are placed in fresh water. Apparently they secrete, as a group, a protective substance...
...liver into slices half an inch thick, and sprinkle each slice with the mixture of bread crumbs, mushrooms and seasonings; put in a casserole, pour over it one-half pint of cold water or good soup stock, and bake in a slow oven for three quarters of an hour...
Most janitors are humble men. In their dingy cubbyholes, in their burrows beneath houses, they sit through the day quietly, watching the furnace fire or listening to the rumble of boilers in which cold water churns upward to dribble languidly out of faucets marked "hot." Their reading is confined to yesterday's newspapers; sleepy, happy woodchucks, they do not care to see their own names on the front pages. They are content...