Word: larva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearer the Army & Navy get to Japan, the more often they encounter tsutsugamushi (Japanese for "dangerous bug fever"). It is also known as scrub typhus, is related to epidemic typhus. Service doctors expect the worst infection in Formosa, Malaya, Japan itself. The disease is carried by the larva of the red mite, Trombicula akamushi, which bites only once, but perhaps fatally-the death rate is 4% to 55%, depending on the virulence of the epidemic. To teach their colleagues about this new danger, Lieuts. (j.g.) Donald S. Farner and Chris P. Katsampes discussed it in the current U.S. Naval Medical...
Triturus viridescens is a U. S. newt which spends the first three to six months of its life as a water larva, then-in some parts of the country at least-comes out to take up residence on land. On land the newts are bright red in color, are known as "red efts." During this phase they are immature and cannot reproduce. After three or four years, they go back to the water, slough off the red skin of adolescence, assume the olive-green garb of adults, acquire the keeled tail of an aquatic animal, and tackle the business...
Little Harry Mencken, "a larva of the comfortable and complacent bourgeoisie," was the eldest son of August of Aug. Mencken & Bro., cigar makers. August's brother Henry, called Hen, lived next door, and in summers they all took a double house in the country. Little Harry went to F. Knapp's Institute, whose headmaster still wore "the classical uniform of a German schoolmaster-a long-tailed coat of black alpaca, a boiled shirt with somewhat fringy cuffs, and a white lawn necktie...