Word: specimens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collins & Aikman Corp., Philadelphia upholstery makers, have a moth research laboratory and a corps of collectors who get 5? for each specimen brought in. The insects are kept in dark, insulated, electrically heated rooms, fed choice animal yarns, pitted against experimental proofing compounds. The company guarantees its moth-proofed fabrics for five years with contracts underwritten by an affiliate of Aetna Life Insurance...
...anchored near Mathew Town, Great Inagua Island. Potomac met us this morning and we have transferred to her from the Monaghan. Bottom fishing this afternoon. Mr. Delano made the catch of the day, getting a fine specimen of blue bone porgy...
...Mine? ... I was a sickly, skinny run-down weakling, weighing only 97 pounds. I finally got fed up with being bullied around and looked down on. THEN-I discovered my amazing secret of Dynamic Tension! This natural principle quickly developed me from a no-account runt to a perfect specimen who holds the international title 'The World's Most Perfectly Developed...
...award of $100 is offered for the best specimen submitted in the Third Annual Short Story Contest sponsored by Story Magazine in colleges throughout the country. Harvard entries in the competition will be judged by editors of the Advocate...
...fine swimmer, Titanoides liked swamps, crushed lush water plants in his none too capable teeth. Prior to 1932 the only evidence of him was a single jawbone. Then Bryan Patterson of the Field Museum found three skeletons, two fragmentary, one almost complete, near Grand Junction, Colo. The excellent specimen put on show in Chicago last week is the only one of Titanoides visible in any of the world's museums...