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Word: tineola (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British, whose Lord Chancellor sits on a woolsack and whose woollens clothe some of the world's better-tailored figures, have been doing some basic thinking about clothes moths. Last week Textile Expert R. W. Moncrieff told how clothes moths (Tineola bisselliella) got their depraved craving for wool, and how modern chemists are persuading them to let the stuff alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Indigestible Wool | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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