Word: cockroaches
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...scene was Winthrop House; the time was dinner; the chief character a cockroach. According to our informant he was a well fed and healthy-looking specimen, as yet unimpaired by his diet. When first observed he was ambling steadily across the tiled floor. One of the House scientists spotted him, gathered him up and inverted a glass over him in the center of the table, with the apparant intention of studying his life habits...
...table, being largely composed of hardened biologists, was indulging in a scientific and more-or-less detached spirit of free inquiry when disaster suddenly loomed in the person of the headwaitress. Determinedly she scooped up the startled cockroach and aimed him unerringly, as one spectator thought, at his unprotected face. But, alas, such was not the case. Oh miserable fate, he was immersed and died a dreadful death in a cup of coffee-colored fluid...
...James Franklin Yeager of the Department of Agriculture projected on a screen a cardiogram from the beating heart of a cockroach. This was obtained by exposing the heart of the insect and placing on it a minute drop of wax. A human hair inserted in the wax was connected through a lever to a fine wire. The heart beats thus jerked the wire and a light beam passing across it translated them into a pulsating graph. The Department uses this method to study the cardiac effect of insecticides...
...cockroach gets a new skin, which serves as its skeleton, seven times before reaching maturity...
...building flew out like the staves of a collapsing barrel. Two freight cars beside the loading platform were reduced to chips. Bodies of workmen landed in the street, one 50 ft. from the plant. A water tank sailed through the air, smashed an automobile flat as a cockroach. Shattered gas mains spread a sickening stench. Firemen, menaced by loops of live wires, were afraid to cut into the shambles with acetylene torches because of fumes. The last of the dead was not removed until four days after the blast. Toll: eleven killed, 45 injured...