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There most of them lived to the ripe age of more than four months. They were fed varying diets of sterilized fish food, algae, housefly larvae and axenic worms. They grew best on the worms. When a platyfish died (apparently because of inadequate diet), it remained clear-eyed and fresh; there were no bacteria present to decompose it. At the end of the experiment nearly all the fish were found still free of microorganisms...
...only place the Army can look now for ready-made technical experts is among men deferred on account of jobs in essential industries-or among the yet unharvested crop of ripe oldsters, aged 38-45, whom the Army decided once it did not want...
...disclaimers of candidacy sound more wholehearted than Governor Dewey's because he declares that he not only intends to finish out his present gubernatorial term but "God and the people willing, I hope to be governor for a second four years." Unlike Dewey, who felt that he was ripe for the Presidency at 38, Earl Warren at 52 modestly asserts that he is not yet experienced enough for the nation's No. 1 job. But when convention time comes Earl Warren may think differently...
...organization, but has to do with the men in it. They are precisely the same persons who upheld the organization which has now been leveled to the ground . . . well-known names, rare in lore of various kinds, rich in experience, and ripe in years. In short, they are 'safe.' They could not be otherwise. . . . Surely the Department can't call any of them 'new blood'. . . . The blunt fact is . . . the Department hasn't budged an inch...
...Service teams, Edwards appears to be fairly good, the Boston Receiving Center ripe for picking, Thomas ripe arsenic, and the Boston Coast Guard and the Lovell Hospital more or less unknown quantities...