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This year some 30,000 bushels of the new Redman seed will be ready for planting next spring. So too, probably, will seed for another new strain, Rescue wheat, on which the destructive wheatstem sawfly (annual damage: $20,000,000) blunts its proboscis in vain. This year, as the E.F.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Redman Strain | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

To Miss Josephine Piccolo, a Brooklyn textile inspector, he wrote: "My dear Dago: (If I am mistaken in this please correct me) ... Will you please keep your dirty proboscis out of the other 47 states, especially the dear old State of Mississippi?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: . . . and to the Nation | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

Over at the Student's Club, another one of the very popular dances in honor of our sisters under the braid from Radcliffe saw a full and gay house. The usual group of lads from the Mid-Off, School were there, supplemented by others of their lupine ilk. Of interest...

Author: By T.x. Cronin and W.m. COUSINS Jr., S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/22/1944 | See Source »

The tsetse looks something like an ordinary housefly, but has the sharp proboscis and the bloodthirsty habits of a mosquito. When an infected tsetse bites a man, it injects into his bloodstream protozoa known as trypanosomes, which-for the tsetse is omnivampiverous-it may have picked up from the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sic | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

Big Tom Healey is a potent factor in more than one respect. Coach Floyd Stahl was pitching to him in batting practice before the Princeton game, when a savage Healey liner caught Stahl squarely on the proboscis, breaking it.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Batsmen Turn Back Penn In Third Victory | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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