Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though mosquitoologists have turned up many such fascinating tidbits, they have not yet found what attracts mosquitoes to their human victims. It is not sight, for mosquitoes are almost blind. It is not odor; no odor, human or otherwise, seems to attract mosquitoes. Temperature may have something to do with it. A glass cylinder filled with water at blood heat is often attacked by swarms of hungry mosquitoes. A moist towel heated electrically gets the same attention. Some investigators think mosquitoes are attracted by carbon dioxide in the human breath. But neither theory explains how mosquitoes find their victims...
...habits of mosquitoes, though closely studied, are still a dark mystery. The males of a few species take their mates where they find them, just like less subtle insects. Among the Opifex fuscus of New Zealand, the males like their females young. They skim along the surface of stagnant water, watching downward intently and sometimes thrusting their heads below the surface. They are looking for female pupae about to become adult. When a pupa breaks the surface, the male tears open the pupa case and mates with the still-soft imago before it has fully emerged...
...often no females show up, though the males dance and hum their best. This has led to another theory that swarming is merely a device to brief the males and encourage them. After the dance is over, presumably, the males sally forth, full of enterprise, to hunt for mates...
...Goethe rushed her to the church and made her his wife. When later asked by an admirer how he had fared in those critical days of invasion, Goethe instantly assumed his statuary expression: "I was like a man who from the height of a cliff surveys the raging sea. Though he cannot succor the shipwrecked, neither can he be reached by the tumultuous waters...
Voice of Experience. In Los Angeles, after Traffic Violator Elmer G. Noe told the court that "even though I was driving with one arm around my girl friend, everything was under control," Judge Roser A. Pfaff retorted sharply: "Young man, I was young once myself. Everything cannot be under control in those circumstances...