Word: habitats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a hard morning in the class-room, the booth-dwellers return to their habitat feeling at case with the familiar wooden support behind them. No true "jellier" ever sits at a table in the middle of the floor, only booths give him that protected feeling...
...Axis, as Italy deserted the Kaiser in 1915, B. Mussolini has many times emphatically, indignantly denied. Nevertheless, last week's pressures by Britain and France were in precisely that direction, and they were truly great pressures. Count Ciano's Foreign Office became almost the full-time habitat of British Ambassador Sir Percy Loraine and French Ambassador André François-Poncet...
...fish hurtles it out of the water through the hole left by the banana. Quick as a note coming due, the fisherman plunges the banana back into the hole through which the fish has come, cutting off the only possible opening through which it could return to its native habitat...
...virus called Rickettsia prowazeki,* which dwells in the intestines of the filthy little insects. Vaccines made from dead typhus viruses provide immunity from the disease, but such vaccines are difficult to make, for Rickettsia prowazeki cannot be easily cultured in artificial mediums, thrives and multiplies best in its natural habitat. Chief European vaccine maker is Professor Rudolf Weigl of the University of Lemberg, Poland. Last week the Paris weekly Marianne described a visit to Professor Weigl's laboratory...
...arthropods, a phylum (subkingdom) of invertebrates which includes crayfish, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, water fleas, barnacles, spiders, scorpions, ticks, insects. Reason: The phylum of arthropods (the name means "jointed legs") has the greatest number of species and individuals, occupies the widest stretches of territory and the greatest variety of habitat, consumes the largest amounts and the most diverse kinds of food, defends itself most capably from its enemies. Of more than a million known species of animals, 95% are invertebrates, and over three-fourths of them are arthropods...