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...female ejects the eggs he fertilizes them, takes them in his mouth one by one and carefully places them in the bubblenest. After she has laid the eggs the female is through, and unless she is removed from the aquarium, her mate will kill her. He zealously guards the nest until the young are hatched, and even guards the young for three or four days until they have developed enough to care for themselves. Then, having performed his family duties, the male will turn cannibal and eat the young he has been guarding, unless he is also removed...
...exchanged between President Hoover and Premier MacDonald, the President had remarked with cutting candor upon the personal and political peculiarities of the very people now opposing the Treaty, had discussed Admirals and Senators and Big-Navy propagandists in terms so frank as to stir up a hornet's nest if now made public. Conceivably the President might have analyzed in uncomplimentary fashion the attitude of the Navy's General Board on cruiser limitation or the anti-Japanese bugaboo of Senator Hiram Johnson of California, chief Senate opponent of the Treaty. Conceivably Mr. MacDonald might have expressed sympathy with...
...blazing heat of a June afternoon, with flags flying, and confetti filling the air, Harvard once again gathers her brood about the maternal nest. With all the tradition and pomp accumulated through the centuries of a glorious past, the graduates old and new congregate to celebrate once again those four years of glowing life that Harvard has given to them. And all of the glitter and festivity, in spite of the fact that it is merely a passing show, reflects the spirit of appreciation that exists in those men whose true education began here...
...acre plateau decks of the two huge mother ships waited 150 airplanes, with all motors thundering, all propellers whirring brightly in the sun, mechanics in varicolored costumes moving among them in the artificial gale their blades created, to make final meticulous adjustments. In "sky forward" (crow's nest) of the Lexington, in rumpled grey suit and floppy hat, the Navy's prime War ace, Lieut. David Sinton Ingalls, now Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, squinted down upon the scene, watching the flight officers' red flag on the bridge below. When a white flag appeared, their...
...Nest egg of the foundation is Professor Harry Steenbock's patents on irradiated foods. At the university he discovered a cheap method of developing vitamin D, which protects babies against rickets, in food by treating the comestibles with ultraviolet light. A dozen U. S. food manufacturers now use his process, and pay - because he refused to let business hamper his research work-royalties to the research foundation...