Word: moths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nature of hunger and reactions of animals to various conditions of light and situation. About 200 rats, 15 cats and kittens, a pair of squirrels, and about 40 salamanders are regularly kept and a pair of monkeys were added last year to the collection. There is also a moth-eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is at present in the process of decay that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University Museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...
...Wedell. Between their fat little Gee-Bee's and Wedell-Williams Specials it was a toss-up in any race. Last February "Granny" Granville was killed in one of his own planes at Spartanburg, S. C. (TIME, Feb. 26). Last week Jimmy Wedell was killed in a Gypsy Moth near Patterson, La. A student taking his first flight was believed to have "frozen" to the stick, stalled the plane...
...Excellency, dazed with grief, was not at home to reporters last week, but month ago he was interviewed. At a long table sat a moth-eaten Grand Duke and a threadbare general of the Imperial Army holding in place a pair of trousers which His Excellency was pressing...
...insects that have invaded the U. S. from those countries. Of parasites which have already proved their worth hundreds of thousands were loosed from government insectaries. One star performer is Trichogramma minutum, a small species of wasp which lays its own eggs inside the eggs of the codling moth, oriental fruit moth, European corn borer, pecan nut case bearer, Angoumois grain moth, many another...
...quarter-century of strenuous and unrelenting labor has finally spelled the demise of the faithful old Randolph Hall switch-board, and yesterday its time-worn panels and moth-eaten cords were removed forever from the hallowed and ivy-covered environs which it has known for so long...