Word: kraatz
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...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...