Word: cocoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a monstrous, whitish grub dragged from its great cocoon, the new German dirigible LZ-129 last week nosed out of its hangar at Friedrichshafen for its first test flight. With Dr. Hugo Eckener in charge of a skeleton crew, the silvery 812-ft. airship, nearly twice the Graf Zeppelin's size, drifted silently out over Lake Constance for three hours, behaved so perfectly that officials boasted further trials were superfluous...
...broad-minded of schoolmarms twitch uneasily. But it is easy to say that one of these Freshman has profited by their example in ten easy lessons. For lately a broken leg cast was found luxuriously occupying an entire bureau draw in Hollis. Some Harvard butterfly had indeed shed its cocoon...
Just before noon, when the fast was to end, a boy Untouchable began slicing and squeezing oranges. Little Latmaja Naidu, daughter of India's foremost Poetess Sarojini Naidu, tiptoed to the cot. St. Gandhi was too weak to raise his head, but from the middle of the cocoon his eyes flashed behind their thick spectacles...
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...
Tennessee's most potent publisher, one of her most potent personalities is big, athletic, round-faced Colonel Luke Lea. At 51 he is already wrapped in a cocoon of legend: the man who, at 32, was the youngest U. S. Senator ever to sit legally; who, a fighting colonel of field artillery, nearly completed an attempt to kidnap the Kaiser from a castle in Holland as a Christmas gift to President Wilson. With Banker-Promoter Rogers Clark Caldwell, he bought the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Appeal (evening) for $3,600,000 in 1927, the Knoxville Journal...