Word: smallest
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...chest cities this year include: Alliance, Ohio; Johnstown, Pa.; Springfield, Mo.; Clinton, Iowa; Hazelton, Pa.; Stamford, Conn.; New Philadelphia, Ohio. And doughty Blacksburg, Va., with a population of less than 2,000 and the smallest of all chests. They hoped to raise $800 for a chest, actually gathered...
...smallest Big Ten Conference crowd of the year watched Michigan work into a championship tie with Northwestern by handling Chicago as every good team has done, this time...
...Hopkins. The John Jacob Abel Fund (Chemical Foundation's $195,000) paid their expenses. The two researchers got their cold virus in the first instance from the noses and throats of persons plainly suffering from colds. Those secretions they put through filters which were so fine that the smallest known germs could not get through. This filtrate they dabbed in the nostrils of perfectly healthy volunteers, among them girls of Goucher College, Baltimore. Enough of the "tests" developed colds to prove the filtrate the causative agent. Unfortunately Drs. Doull and Long have not been able to develop the virus...
Last week, Dr. Small returned to New York to take care of his gargantuan flower garden. Iris plants, of which there are more than 200 species, ordinarily do not grow taller than three feet. One of the smallest known, a Chinese variety, is only three inches in height. Dr. Small is afraid his transplanted iris will be stunted by the northern climate, will grow to be only about four feet tall. If they flourish, he plans a public exhibit next spring...
...Entomologists discovered some 8,000 new kinds last year, have classified about 500,000 kinds, estimate that two to ten million kinds exist. True insects have three parts to their bodies-head, thorax, abdomen-and three pairs of legs and, usually, two pairs of wings attached to the thorax. Smallest insects are 1/100 in. long, scarcely discernible to the human eye. There is a chunky beetle (Macrodontia cervicovnis) 6 in. long, and some stick-insects reach 13-in. in length. Insect with the greatest wingspread is the moth Erebus agrippina, spread 11 in. But a fossil dragon...