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...often difficult to make a spider spin its web. Placing the spider on a table, Fowler harasses it to the point of fury with a pencil. The spider then drops off the table edge, spinning a web above it, which is handled with tweezers and a telescopic eyepiece...
Workers up on the bridge watched the crash with horror. "The whole bridge structure shook when the net broke," said one. Peter Anderson, working just above the platform, watched his brother's body spin and twist down and away. Workers raced along the bridge seeking life preservers, found only fire extinguishers. Bridge whistles stopped all work and everyone looked down at the Coast Guard boats circling below...
...champion at the age of 15, in 1935, he was no prodigy but a veteran of eight years' arduous training. Last week Robin Lee, Maribel Vinson, Erie Reiter and the rest of the small company of U. S. figure skating virtuosos were at Chicago to whirl, spin and leap for U. S. championships on the dyed blue ice of the Chicago Arena. Most noteworthy member of the sophisticated crowd that watched them was Negro Frank Haskins, retired petty naval officer...
...greatest problems facing the new mentor is the difficulty of imposing a new technique on men in whom the old form has been completely automatic. It is one thing to have a crew functioning perfectly smoothly during a practice spin where they have time to concentrate on all the new precepts; but it is quite a different proposition to keep the new formula in mind when under pressure. Even after an entire winter and spring of faultless rowing, old habits are likely to crop up in the midst of a close sprint...
Some weeks ago after a batch of crossbred worms from France had begun to spin, the cocoons appeared in three different colors-white, golden yellow, near-beige. It was obvious to Lady Hart Dyke that mismating had occurred. With British doggedness she set out to trace the ancestry of the worms, to determine whether the production of the three colors could be continued and controlled along established genetic lines...