Word: bitefuls
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...ease of unemployment. Last week Eng land learned that the dole brought its own disease. To many a workman, suddenly jobless, mental deterioration comes swiftly. For a few days he enjoys his leisure. Then comes restlessness. He walks the streets, goes home to pace his floor, bite his nails, throw things at his wife. Gradually this energy wears itself out. He stops shaving, becomes dirty, slovenly, sodden. He looks at the world out of dull, defeated eyes. For this con dition psychologists have a new term : un employment shock...
...Parker. Only the female mosquito sings or produces its characteristic note when flying. The males are provided with bushy antennae projecting from the head on each side. These are the organs of hearing by which the male recognizes the presence of the female somewhere near. The males do not bite. The females do, to get nutrition for the eggs which they lay in stagnant pools...
Upon their backs to bite...
Close to the fleas' infinitum are the phages which Dr. Felix d'Hrelle, professor of protobiology at Yale, described last week to the Society of American Bacteriologists at Baltimore. Phages behave as though they bite germs...
...materially affect the ship's performance. The $25,000 penalty provided for that overweight will not be collected by the Navy. As for speed, Designer Arnstein and Commander Rosendahl declared there was no doubt the fault would be remedied by the new propellers which will take a "bigger bite" of the air. But the builder may be penalized for the shortcoming...