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...laugh from Venezuelan vertebrates in the neighborhood, Beebe and company put up a sign reading "LABORATORIO: MANICOMO," i.e., bughouse. Some of the natives watched with great interest as Beebe experimented with such insects as the Hercules beetles, six inches long, which outweigh some of the smallest mammals and fight with their horns like embittered rhinoceroses. Though ocelots hunted by night in the rooms of the Rancho Grande, and army ants on the march once had to be diverted from the laboratory by 20 gallons of flaming gasoline, Beebe firmly maintains that the jungle was as safe as a church. During...
...World's oldest, and smallest republic controlled by Communists...
Geologists are studying the shape of some of the smallest things in the Universe; and astronomers are studying the shape of one of the largest--the Milky Way galaxy...
From the biggest astronomical bodies to the smallest--that takes one to the work Professor Fred L. Whipple, who studies the miner bodies of the solar...
...those who must leave the New Haven for connections with any other railroad, enormous troubles may arise, of which figuring out the right hand to look at on the new three-handed clocks is the smallest of worries...