Word: caterpillar
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Butterflies grow up in odd places. The cabbage butterfly, in its caterpillar state, will sometimes pupate on firewood, often emerges from its cocoon in midwinter, much to the astonishment of gentlemen warming their feet in fireplaces. The cybele will lay eggs only on violets...
Airplane men have their Caterpillar Club. Airship men who have dangled on ropes might call themselves Spiders. After two hours the lump at the end of the Akron's cable began to rise slowly spider-wise, toward a port in the forward part of the lifeless, floating ship. As the cable shortened Sailor Cowart's oscillations grew more violent. When he disappeared into the port, the crowd murmured with relief but no one cheered...
...Reduction 3,815 5,250 Best & Co 926 1,265 Calumet & Hecla 2,573 d 6d Caterpillar Tractor 1,361 8,714 Consolidated Laundries 689 771 Continental Baking 4,243 6,114 Cream of Wheat 1,504 1,868 Glen Alden Coal 7,391 12,245 Industrial Rayon 683 1,547 La Salle Extension University 75 167 Lima Locomotive 1.414 d 1,382 McGraw-Hill 869 2,021 New Jersey Zinc Co 3,051 5,013 Parke, Davis & Co 6,292 7,514 Standard Brands...
...five dramatic hours fully 1,000.000 Russians striding 75 abreast surged like a broad, human river past Stalin. Of the marchers 40,000 were picked Red Army troops. They marched and wheeled in perfect parade formation to a crunching accompaniment of fast Red Army caterpillar tanks, some mounting 2-in. guns. Leading the parade on a prancing cavalry charger rode red-faced, ham-fisted War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, bowing and grinning, cheered as loudly on this day as the Red Dictator himself...
...fairyland! Its women are beautiful! Its character is best interpreted by its man-built wonders, les skyscrapers! I certainly hope to return. It is possible, however, that I shall accept an invitation to join a French expedition which is going to Timbuktu, crossing the Sahara desert in caterpillar automobiles...