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Little sound waves are deadlier than big ones. Last week the U.S. Army Signal Corps described (with dark reticence) some experiments at State College, Pa. on sound waves too short (high-pitched) for the human ear to hear. The inaudible racket killed mice in one minute. The insidious little waves also killed cockroaches and mosquitoes...
Female ticks are deadlier than males. They gorge themselves to the bursting point (five or six times normal size) and, if disease carriers, are just as dangerous to the tick picker who pops them as to the victim whose blood they suck. The male is flatter, smaller, less greedy. When he is sated, he noses around the host until he finds a feeding female, mates with her on the spot, moves away to start all over again. When the female is completely engorged, she drops off, finds herself a cranny to lay her eggs in (5,000 at a time...
...great Mildred ("Babe") Didrickson Zaharias. Babe's tee shots boomed down the fairways about 80 yards farther than Mary's. Mary's unorthodox swing, which her father, a golfing dentist, refuses to correct, looked pitifully inadequate. But the closer she got to the green, the deadlier her game became. The best stick in her bag was a battered 15-year-old putter, with which she sank two 35-ft. putts. Babe fell two holes behind in the first three and could not catch up. Exit the Babe...
...Pacific war, U.S. forces have always been handicapped by a dearth of accurate information. One minor example: intelligence officers warned that Okinawa was crawling with poisonous snakes, especially the habu, deadlier than a rattler. Last week some marines reported news of one of the few snakes so far discovered on Okinawa. The habu, cut into fillets and fried, made pretty good eating, the marines said...
...Germans managed their surrender with a skill which will plague the victors for years to come. No Wehrmacht campaign was ever planned to deadlier purpose, executed with greater cunning...