Word: insect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...INSECT SPRAY (DDT): wash out the stomach, give cathartic of sodium sulfate...
...thing, they must still seem like insect and animal. For another, their story is a problem because actually there is no story. And beyond that, they reflect a very personal, crinkly humorist and constitute a very Volstead Act and vers-libre period piece, the two things meeting in the on-the-wagon Don Marquis who said to a bartender: "I've conquered that goddam willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch...
Lang asserted that "there is no evidence that the insects enter the Band offices from the Union." Furthermore, he added that the Band office "very rarely has insect problems, certainly no more often than in any other University building...
...best all-purpose insect repellent so far developed," in the words of the Department of Agriculture, will soon be released for commercial sale. Army volunteers found that the odorless fluid-a new diethyl toluamide compound-when rubbed on the skin offered protection against mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks, fleas, and biting flies...
...Insect Aerodynamics. During World War II, Dr. Urquhart worked for the Royal Canadian Air Force, and familiarity with airplanes gave him new ideas. He figured that small paper labels attached to the leading edges of the butterflies' wings close to the body instead of on the surfaces would not interfere as much with their flyability. Little by little Dr. Urquhart learned to make the labels stick by cutting small holes in the wing, folding the label over the hole and gluing the paper to itself rather than to the almost adhesive-proof wing. In 1950 and 1951 he tagged...