Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Years Under the Earth makes it clear that speleology is no job for a claustrophobe. "Very few tubes are im-passable," declares Casteret, "if one knows how to crawl (there is an art to it) and dares to keep on, come what may. Thanks to his shape, man can stretch out longer and thinner than any animal of his size...
...pouch the youngsters stay for about 55 days, attached to their mother's body by the swelling of her nipples, too big for their tiny mouths to release. When they have developed to the size of a mouse they crawl about her body, with frequent visits home. Thirty days later, fully developed in everything but size, they leave home for good; but not until three years have passed do they reproduce their teaspoonfilling kind...
...officer & gentleman of the U. S. Army may proceed by rote from West Point to the grave. His future is assured by the God and Manual of Arms. For him: field duty, a tour in Washington, assignment to the Philippines, Hawaii, China, or some domestic doghouse, and always the crawl up the promotion lists from lieutenant to captain to major, perhaps to a colonelcy or even to the final glory of a general's stars. For his wife: the same, plus a lifetime with other army wives. How some of them live was told last week in a whitewashed...
...through telescopes. For three days they watched them, inching their way like tiny black spiders up a white web. The third evening, the quartet that had started out as two competing teams joined ropes, stood lashed to the rock, 500 ft. from the top, waiting for dawn and the crawl to victory...
...stream of water squirted in through a neglected bolthole and hit him in the back of the neck. By the time they had plugged the hole with a piece of pine, the submarine was resting on the bottom of the river. They cranked it across the Shrewsbury, made it crawl obediently through the mud and, as a demonstration for skeptical townspeople, even made it scoop up old tin cans and clamshells. It was, says Simon Lake, the first submarine that really performed. Rivals have claimed the same thing for their inventions...