Word: spawning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...numbers and sizes (up to 8 ft., 3 in. for congers) as they go to sea in the autumn but the specimens are never sexually ripe. Sea 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...
...murres, puffins, petrels and other seafowl in clamorous clouds. There is a chapter on extinct and vanishing species: the sturgeon and condor; an oil field that yielded 2,000 sabre-tooth tigers; peregrine falcons nesting in a skyscraper cornice; swarms of alewives (herring) rushing up a factory creek to spawn. Mr. Sharp has the faculty of reproducing backgrounds, from his native Hingham, Mass., to the swinging chain of peaks around Los Angeles. Every season is his favorite, every district full of won- der. A chapter called "The Wildness of Boston" reveals foxes and deer within sight of the city clock...
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...Eddy, or another watchful observer of the times, who first suspected that man was weary of walking upright and looking at the stars ; and judging from the doings of experimenting scientists, this weariness is leading man into strange and shadowy paths-the blending of the ape and man-monkey spawn and angel spawn. Queer things are coming from Russia! ELMER MILLS...
Fiat,* largest automobile company in Europe and largest Italian industrial concern, has long poured over the Continent its gleaming metal spawn, big Fiats and little Fiats, trim town cars with square lights and snub noses, Baby Fiats that are playthings for South American debutantes, and cars like the huge grey road lizards in which Il Duce speeds from camp to campagna. The Fiat company's ten factories make also tractors, forgings, castings, Diesel engines, electricity; employ 32,000 men; sold 40,000 cars last year; reached gross sales of $50,000,000 and net profits of almost...