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Word: caterpillar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caterpillar eggs recently joined the ranks of unsiezed contraband. Two ardent Yardling biologists this fall actually resorted to smuggling eggs from Canada in trying to raise half a dozen Japanese silk forms and earn...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Two Freshman Biologists Turn Smugglers In Effort to Snag $300 Silkworm Bounty | 10/22/1952 | See Source »

Benjamin Dane '56 and Charles Walcott '56 are "experts" in the domestic caterpillar trade. Since September, the two have been raising the multi-feeted insects and feeding them chemically-treated, frozen oak leaves...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Two Freshman Biologists Turn Smugglers In Effort to Snag $300 Silkworm Bounty | 10/22/1952 | See Source »

After raising a bumper catepillar crop one summer. Walcott realized that the oak season would soon be over, leaving nothing to feed the baby caterpillars; hence the idea of frozen caterpillar food originated...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Two Freshman Biologists Turn Smugglers In Effort to Snag $300 Silkworm Bounty | 10/22/1952 | See Source »

...till now Dane hasn't been able to obtain a permit to import the live caterpillar eggs, so ten days ago Walcott and he smuggled some in from Canada. However, these caterpillars won't be ready until next spring--too late to collect...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Two Freshman Biologists Turn Smugglers In Effort to Snag $300 Silkworm Bounty | 10/22/1952 | See Source »

...other half of the 14-man Olympic squad, taken from the top A.A.U. team in the U.S., was decided when the Peoria (Lll.) Caterpillar Diesels beat the Denver (Colo.) Phillips Oilers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kansas' Skyscraper | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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