Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both of his method as a naturalist and of the charm of his style-a style which fascinates many a reader to whom a technical book on entomology would be anathema. The other insects that he studied include the spider, fly, mason-bee, bramble-bee, hunting wasp, ant, grasshopper, caterpillar, mason-wasp, weevil, glowworm, sacred beetle and other beetles. Fabre struggled for nearly 40 years, teaching physics, chemistry and mathematics (not the subjects that he loved) in provincial schools in Corsica and Avignon and writing textbooks to raise a large family and secure a modest competence that would allow...
...roasting sulphurous copper ore to secure by-product sulphuric acid, with which superphosphate fertilizers are made. Eimer & Amend, instrument manufacturers, displayed a photomicrographic camera, to be attached to an ordinary microscope. The Research Corporation, organized to market new inventions, exhibited an electric precipitator for dried milk and a caterpillar drive adjustable at any time, for getting automobile trucks out of ditches. The Universal Oil Products Co. demonstrated its process for " cracking" gasoline from heavier oils, such as kerosene...
...something or other-ingenuity, perhaps. The outdoor show business at Coney Island is almost in full swing. Hot dogs sizzle along the boardwalk-barkers bark-"the only genuine saltwater taffy" clogs conversation everywhere. The most popular new attraction at present at Coney is said to be a ride-The Caterpillar operated by the owners of "The House of 1,000 Laughs." John Barrymore is at present in Morocco, perhaps preparing for Othello. Theatre tickets in Berlin now run to 39,000 marks or so. " Give us a couple of million, papa. We're taking the girls to a matinee...
...inspiration came from the phenomenal success of the Citroen cars, equipped with Citroen-Kegrasse caterpillar treads, in crossing the Sahara last February, 1,600 miles of sand in 20 days...
...spring rush to the Yukon the old-fashioned dog sledge has been generally supplanted by caterpillar tractors...