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While he was still an adolescent, his father's farm had begun filling orders from all over the world. The New Zealand government sent for 60,000 pupae of the Cinnabar moth, hoping the caterpillars might eat up the country's ragwort weed. The Newmans supplied the pupae and the moths did well in New Zealand. They even ate some ragwort. But eventually, New Zealand birds ate most of the Cinnabars...
...Starving Moth...
...quarter-century ago, warm-weather designs were becoming so scant that an ananymous writer commented, "Give feminine fashions time enough and they will starve all the moths to death." Apparently, they haven't had enough time, and the moth is far from extinction. For a while, bathing suits threatened to disappear under the French influence, but they are once again coming into use as an article of clothing. Dresses, suits, and blouses are not spare of material, either...
...Sandy" MacDonald of Cambridge University stated that the English teams would be glad to pay their own way across this year. All was happy for a brief space, although American track men may have felt a bit miffed at a vision of John Bull, in scuffed spikes and moth-eaten persey, running against well-fed and well-outfitted local collegians...
...earthly levels, his mind goes its own soaring way. Currently it is full of another concept of shelter for the human family in the form of'a great whirling blade overhead, which swishes into outer space all cold and fog and wind and rain, together with the moth and rust that corrupt, leaving the shipping clerk and his riveter wife snug and secure with their three children inside the wall-less vacuum of his dreams. If any fool objects that the neighbors can see in, there are always curtains, or something...