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...George Washington (then Columbian) University. In 1893 he demonstrated that the "Texas fever" which was destroying cattle herds in the Southwest was caused by a microbe which the cattle tick took from sick beasts, nourished and transmitted to well beasts. Thus he proved and established the great principle of insect-borne transmission of infection which led to the understanding of and intelligent aggression against yellow fever, malaria, typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, and dozens of comparable diseases...
...trypanosome, protozoon which under the microscope resembles an auger. Two kinds of trypanosomes are indigenous to Africa, another kind to South America. The African types, borne by the tsetse fly, cause African sleeping sickness,* which kills 10,000 to 20,000 natives yearly. The "barber bug," a voracious Brazilian insect, is chief transmitter of the parasites in South America...
Wallace has written so many Wallaces he can not remember some of them; Oppenheim has published more than 100 Oppenheims. U. S. Super-Tycoon Warren Rand was "the human riddle of two hemispheres." Cold as a fish, single-minded as an insect, his primary ambition was to make himself Richest Man in the World. Hundreds hated Tycoon Rand, scores tried to kill him. He never figured in the news, for the good reason that he controlled the world's press. But rumors were bruited. Who was the mysterious figure who was cornering the world's supply of gold...
...Insects are the most numerous and most widespread of all animal species. Entomologists discovered some 8,000 new kinds last year, have classified about 500,000 kinds, estimate that two to ten million kinds exist. True insects have three parts to their bodies-head, thorax, abdomen-and three pairs of legs and, usually, two pairs of wings attached to the thorax. Smallest insects are 1/100 in. long, scarcely discernible to the human eye. There is a chunky beetle (Macrodontia cervicovnis) 6 in. long, and some stick-insects reach 13-in. in length. Insect with the greatest wingspread is the moth...
...idea of making a fool of oneself in that murderous mix-up now appears to me rather a ludicrous one; for I see myself merely as a blundering, flustered little beetle; and if someone happens to put his foot on a beetle, it is unjust to accuse the unlucky insect of having made a fool of itself...