Word: locusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Egyptian locust's] permanent breeding grounds are unknown...
Plagued by locusts this spring worse than at any time in living memory, the Egyptian Government last week drafted proposals for an anti locust congress at Cairo, communicated with the foreign offices of lands into which the pest has spread: France (Tunis), Spain (Spanish Morocco), Britain (Palestine and Transjordania), Greece and Rumania...
...Hottest locust battle of the week was that fought on the grand old Egyptian front by thousands of sweating natives directed by a mere handful of cool, efficient Englishmen, commanded by the British Inspector General of the Egyptian Army, famed "Spinks Pasha," Maj. General Sir Charlton Watson Spinks...
...Locust...
...Berlin last week an amorous he-locust was allowed to utter his mating call in front of a radio microphone. In another room the delicate sound was so perfectly reproduced and broadcast that a she-locust, duped, at once took wing, flew into the loudspeaker, bumped her head...