Word: teeming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...182.Since Japanese colonists teem in Manchuria, the spread of Chinese civil war to that province would be of gravest international concern; and the Japanese Government has long since averred that it will intervene to prevent such an eventuality (TIME, April...
...turn to page 244 and may produce Swedish smorgasbord (which, after all, is only a piece of bread with a bit of meat, fish or cheese laid on it and served with butter). While some of the recipes thus draw their charm almost entirely from an exotic name, most teem with lucious promise. Even the grossest of non-gourmets might read on after encountering the book's first sentence: "In America the name of garlic is in bad odor." To which the author adds: "This conception is a libel upon garlic and upon the land of garlic eaters...
...second to answer that question. Paris, we find, has its lures, but the call to "go somewhere," has also and the lures of the latter are apparently greater for we find ourselves wandering with the author through wild desert and dried-up-river beds that teem with game, especially buffalo. Pictures of the upper Nile, of strange places such as Makwar, of the valley of the Dinder, of Rosaries flit before us with amazing rapidity. We are able to feel the heat of the sun and enthuse over the coloring of the sunsets with the author, despite the fact that...
...week forbade the further use of roller towels in all business and public lavatories; of powder puffs and sponges in all barbershops; of wooden bedsteads in public lodging houses of the Province. Reasons, well known to U. S. dwellers among whom such hygienic measures now seem almost antediluvian: germs teem on public towels, puffs and sponges; bedbugs nest in the joints of wooden bedsteads, in the crevices of their peeling veneer, in their "antique" wormholes...
...dredging has hitherto brought to light no eel eggs, which are evidently laid at great depths. Laboratory observations have proved that eels spawn but once, dying immediately afterwards. All that ever comes back from the depths are transparent baby eels about 2 in. long, with which harbors and rivers teem in the spring. Before spawning, matured eels fast for months, their ultimate death re sulting from starvation. The small eels that return by the myriad are at least a year old, having developed out of a larval stage which Science long took to be a distinct species of surface-dwelling...