Word: caterpillar
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...gigantic bloom, its huge feathery petals furled into some astonishing pattern of color and shade and line. A bee, busy with a paint brush, might so have reproduced the soft, enormous caves in which his pasturage is found. One of the.insects out of Henri Fabre, some thoughtful, sensitive caterpillar who had read Freud, might have so pictured the green and perpendicular avenues of his morning's promenade. But no caterpillar, however sensitive, no bee, however dexterous, could have traced, in the lines of a flower's petal, so suave, so decorative a design...
Sixty three men, one jump or more ahead of death, were listed last week by the Army Air Corps. Called the Caterpillar Club this unofficial organization is composed of all U. S. flyers who have dodged destruction by parachute leaps from disabled planes. Parachutes are made of silk; silk comes from caterpillars...
...drink of water with a glass of kerosene. He is 25, more than six feet tall, rangy, handsome, blond. He knows flying as the barnstormer with a $250 plane and as the chief pilot for the St. Louis-Chicago air mail route. He is a prominent member of the Caterpillar Club, having four times become a butterfly and descended to earth in a parachute. In the Missouri National Guard he earned the rank of captain. As his next exploit, he is considering a flight from California to Australia (6,500 miles), with a stop at Hawaii...
...craned their heads forward to watch the technique. The surgeon grasped hold of the child's crippled leg with his powerful fingers, flexed the knee, rotated the thigh, brought it up and then down with a motion as slow and tremendous as that of a caterpillar tractor. There was a snapping of adhesions, a sickening cracking. The two legs were together, were bandaged into immobility with the hips. The surgeon straightened up. His blue eyes, which had just now been so coldly serious, started to twinkle as the spectators pressed about him with their astonished exclamations, with their compliments...
...French have planned a compromise type of expedition, using motor sledges in co-operation with collapsible amphibian planes. Their sledges differ from the caterpillar-tread ones that failed Wilkins, having suction-grip rubber "paws" on a traction wheel extended in front of the sled-runners...