Determining Factor Unknown—See [Mystery of Nature].
DEVASTATION
What a pity it is to see a garden given over to a herd of swine that tear up the beds, trample on the seeds, wallow among the flowers, spoil the fruits! This is the spectacle that is offered our eyes every day by that beautiful and divine garden of Youth when it is occupied, devastated, pillaged, by the lower instincts, the coarser appetites.—Charles Wagner, “The Gospel of Life.”
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Development, Arrested—See [Deformity].
Development of the Ear—See [Practise].
Development, Slow—See [Retardation].
Device for Safeguarding Freight—See [Theft, A Check on].
DEVICE THAT DECOYS
Several years ago The National Geographic Magazine published a description of the angler fish, well known along the New England coast because of a device by means of which it lures and catches other fish. This device consists of filaments or tendrils resembling seaweed, which are attached to the head.