Word: kraatz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight years ago Dr. Zook became president of the University of Akron (Ohio), a tax-supported institution with 87 teachers and 1,322 students, Akronites attending gratis. Nearest Akron has come to fame was when its Professor Walter Charles Kraatz was erroneously reported to have been sent, for observation, an alarm clock containing a spider that for three weeks attempted to spin a web from hour hand to minute hand. President Zook ran his University ably. He kept his political views to himself. He joined Rotary. He is a Methodist. He and Mrs. Zook have an adopted son, Charley, just...
WALTER C. KRAATZ...
...gossamer. Each night C. C. Thompson wound the clock, slept, woke at its alarm. The spider spun .on day & night. Last week, when the spider had spun and the clock undone some 420 times, clock and spider were sent to the University of Akron's Professor Walter Charles Kraatz. The insect had now become the size of an ordinary house spider. Director Harold Lester Madison of Cleveland's Museum of Natural History scoffed the idea of its growing, said the original "black dot" must have been an offspring of the present spider. He thought the cannibalistic female...