Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple circles, live-pointed stars and sprocket wheels, shot from above. The novelty lies in having the chorus swim and pose in an extraordinary pool backed by a combined waterfall and diving-platform. While still immersed, Warners' geometrical water-babies arrange themselves further into formations resembling a caterpillar unfolding its legs, a zipper-fastener opening & closing. On dry land they conduct their usual gyrations on a flat stage, on glittering pedestals and in a cafe where Ruby Keeler, in Chinese makeup, does a tap dance on a bar. Although the cinema code has not yet been signed, Hollywood productions...
...York's moths were snow-white linden moths (Ennomos subsignarius) of the measuring-worm or elm-span family (Geometridae). In the caterpillar stage they live on leaves, preferably elm and linden, and also like lettuce salad. Having but two pairs of prolegs. the worms push themselves with their hind legs until they are humped like a croquet wicket, then slide their front ends forward. Grown fat, they spin a thread, slide down it to the ground, snooze under fallen leaves. Early in July the moth emerges, seeks company, goes off whichever way the wind is blowing. Last week...
Butterflies grow up in odd places. The cabbage butterfly, in its caterpillar state, will sometimes pupate on firewood, often emerges from its cocoon in midwinter, much to the astonishment of gentlemen warming their feet in fireplaces. The cybele will lay eggs only on violets...
Airplane men have their Caterpillar Club. Airship men who have dangled on ropes might call themselves Spiders. After two hours the lump at the end of the Akron's cable began to rise slowly spider-wise, toward a port in the forward part of the lifeless, floating ship. As the cable shortened Sailor Cowart's oscillations grew more violent. When he disappeared into the port, the crowd murmured with relief but no one cheered...
...Reduction 3,815 5,250 Best & Co 926 1,265 Calumet & Hecla 2,573 d 6d Caterpillar Tractor 1,361 8,714 Consolidated Laundries 689 771 Continental Baking 4,243 6,114 Cream of Wheat 1,504 1,868 Glen Alden Coal 7,391 12,245 Industrial Rayon 683 1,547 La Salle Extension University 75 167 Lima Locomotive 1.414 d 1,382 McGraw-Hill 869 2,021 New Jersey Zinc Co 3,051 5,013 Parke, Davis & Co 6,292 7,514 Standard Brands...