Word: caterpillar
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Despite the fact that the strip around the caterpillar's middle is narrower than usual this year, winter resorts are preparing bigger and more complete skiing facilities all over New England...
...question a lot of people are gambling on. Resort owners know that it has to be right, their futures depend on it. The student who wants to go skiing isn't looking at the long run situation, he's only concerned with December through March. Of course, the caterpillar may be wrong...
Appropriately for the Christmas season, a Manhattan gallery was showing some of the most elaborate grownups' toys ever made: automatons produced largely in the 18th Century by Swiss and British craftsmen. There was a gold caterpillar that, when wound, inched along a tabletop in a pretty fair imitation of nature. A gold mouse, ridged with pearls, scurried, stopped, spun and darted about as if in real fright. An emerald-green frog jumped and croaked...
...through thousands of pages of English, Thorndike had picked out the 10,000 words most frequently used. His Teacher's Word Book revolutionized the writing of English textbooks for children and foreigners. In one book for Spaniards, Thorndike and Lorge found, the author had included such rarities as caterpillar, snail, and cocoon in Lesson Five. In a text for Italians, wrench, bellows, tongs, and plumbline appeared on Page 10. One textbook started out waving the word...
Wide & Woolly Sir: Last year you ran an item on the American Museum of Natural History's experiment in forecasting the severity of winter by noting the number of rings a caterpillar had. The Forecast was for a mild winter...