Word: jellyfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love child," and Britain's Margot Asquith, who struck "matches as I have seen certain men do, on their own anatomy." > Even before Woodrow Wilson broke with Secretary of State Lansing and Colonel House, Mrs. Wilson was convinced that both were disloyal. When she called House a "jellyfish" for making concessions at the Peace Conference during Wilson's absence, Woodrow Wilson answered: "Well, God made jellyfish, so, as Shakespeare said about a man, therefore let him pass, and don't be too hard on House...
Inside are coral gardens, reefs and jutting shelves to protect smaller fish from their predatory neighbors. Already Marine Studios boasts the only porpoises and manta rays in captivity, sawfish, penguins, barracuda, devil fish, turtles, etc. Eventually it hopes to have virtually everything from jellyfish to man-eating sharks...
...camp to conduct scientific investigation and communicate hv radio with airplanes making transpolar flights to the U. S. The scientists discovered that the air around the Pole was not constantly at high barometric pressure, but, on the contrary, at constantly low pressure. Another surprise was a swarm of crabs, jellyfish and red crayfish, brought up in a net from a depth of 3,000 feet...
Cowards, Poltroons, Jellyfish! Next, with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the whole of His Majesty's Government looking flushed and uncomfortable-ex-cepting Sir Samuel Hoare - the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George bounded to his feet, shook his fist deliberately at Eden, then at Baldwin and led members of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition in calling the British Cabinet "cowards . . . poltroons . . . jellyfish . . . skulkers . . . flying fleas...
...gravitational yank of a passing star, is commonly estimated at 2,000,000,000 years ago. Much of this time was spent cooling, shrinking, solidifying: more than half of it passed before evidence of the first microscopic life was left in the rocks. Five hundred million years ago sponges, jellyfish and worms appeared; fishes 400,000,000 years ago; giant reptiles 150,000,000 years ago. Well within the last 100,000,000 years birds and mammals appeared, and within the last million, man. The dates. Sir James admits, are conjectural but the sequence...