Word: spider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...championship of the Women's Western Golf Association. Her score for the three days' play was 256. Her nearest competitors were Miss Virginia Wilson with 264, Mrs. Dave Gaut (272), Mrs. Lee Mida, defending champion (274). The one-time Elaine Rosenthal is the wife of S. L. ("Spider") Reinhart, famed Yale footballer, shot putter and boxer of half a decade ago. She previously won the Women's Western...
...plant may have been one of the sources of supply of purple dye obtained by the Greeks. A second uncommon plant which we came across was the barilla, the leaves of which glisten as though make of ice. From it the gatherers obtain soda. Specimens of a large, black, spider, is lycosa ingens were found. This spider is smaller than the Cuban tarantula and notable for its coal blackness...
...bound him so securely in his dealings with the Admiralty Board and the War Office. It is apparent that he had no idea of the limits of the possible within a bureaucratic government; in other words he was the optimistic fly in the red tape web of the Government spider...
...hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion is typical both of his method as a naturalist and of the charm of his style-a style which fascinates many a reader to whom a technical book on entomology would be anathema. The other insects that he studied include the spider, fly, mason-bee, bramble-bee, hunting wasp, ant, grasshopper, caterpillar, mason-wasp, weevil, glowworm, sacred beetle and other beetles. Fabre struggled for nearly 40 years, teaching physics, chemistry and mathematics (not the subjects that he loved) in provincial schools in Corsica and Avignon and writing textbooks to raise a large...
...title page of Christopher Morley's new book, "Inward Ho!" the twentieth century poet has inserted the words of his brother Keats: "Now it appears to me that almost any man may, like the spider, sping from his own inwards his own airy Citadel--the points of leaves and twigs on which the spider begins her work are few, and she fills the air with a beautiful circuiting...