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...does a spider stretch its legs? That question is an old zoologist baffler. Spiders have no leg-stretching muscles, yet they have an unquestioned ability to unflex all eight pedal extremities. A Caltech biologist, after long study, has finally solved the riddle: the answer is blood pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: About Spiders | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...York side-by-side with most of the first ten public enemies, and that he knows where they carry their guns. It is then a comparatively simple matter to get one of Cagney's former sweethearts to squeal on her husband, and the claws of justice unflex with telling effect. "G-Men" manages to keep its sympathies on the sunny side of the law, and is thus an improvement over previous films of the gangster type. Those critics who do not find the diminutive James attractive will rejoice to learn that, after being pursued as usual by an incredible number...

Author: By W. L. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

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