Word: spider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believer in eclecticism if not in consecutive growth, Picasso himself knows why he is always changing. Says he: "The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. That is why we must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it-except from our own works. I have a horror of copying myself...
...Sanderson went cautiously inside. Clusters of giant grey bats whirred out of potholes. Crabs the size of footballs, their eyes bugging like periscopes, squatted on the floor, waved huge pincers, hissed like snakes. A luminescent lizard slithered into a dark crevice. An enormous red rat nudged his foot. Giant spider-centipedes scuttled across his hands. Blood-sucking vampire bats gnashed from black ledges...
...Cuban leper, his arm scarred and painfully ulcerated, was bitten by a poisonous tropical spider. Strangely enough, he felt no ill effects, and the searing pain in his arm diminished for several days. His doctor passed the remarkable news on to his colleagues and soon the Pasteur Institute in Paris began work on the use of animal poisons for relief of uncontrollable pain. That was ten years ago. Most practical poison to use, the French scientists discovered, is cobra venom, which is easy to extract, measure and inject. Fortnight ago, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Robert Northwall...
...production rate of 40 to 60% of nominal capacity, output can easily be sped up or slowed down. But to speed up much beyond 60% of capacity, time and money must be spent sweeping spider webs out of high-cost idle factories, oil and repairs have to be lavished on obsolete machinery. At such times as the present, orders can be delivered no faster than the economic assembly line is able to move through U. S. industry's many tight spots and bottlenecks...
Slickest bullying trick of Nazi spider-fly diplomacy is to invite victims to Berlin, turn their heads with official flattery, parades and feasts, then scare them out of their wits with a stunning display of German military might given, of course, in their honor...