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...Tribe's other big performer is tailback Michael Clemon, a 5-ft., 5-in., 165-lb. waterbug whom Restic said the Crimson "must take away...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: # 1 Harvard Takes on # 2 William and Mary | 10/5/1985 | See Source »

...Slaughter, 24, is a skindiver with a difference. He hunts for danger: any size, shape or variety of shark. It seems unfair to Scotty that spearmen anxious to skewer a meal should be bothered by a fish with the nasty habit of fighting back. So the blond, blue-eyed waterbug from Clearwater, Fla., has embarked on a personal campaign to kill just as many sharks as he can. To date he has personally disposed of more than 100 of the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shark Killer | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...Waterbug." Harry Dexter White was plucked out of Appleton and taken to Washington in June 1934 by Professor Jacob Viner, the internationally known economist, then a Treasury official. White went to the capital only for a summer assignment: to study the gold standard and international trade. By fall he had settled down to a long career in the Treasury-and an interesting career it was. He was not a great economist. His specialty was international payments, which does not require much theoretical ability but does pose intricate problems, as chess does. In the 1930s, White wrote some rather original memoranda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: One Man's Greed | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...considered his intellectual inferiors-and that included just about everyone. He was intolerant: a man who opposed Harry White was likely to fall under suspicion of being "pro-Nazi." He worked and schemed constantly, slept and played little. Said one of his associates: "He ranged everywhere, like a waterbug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: One Man's Greed | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...glant waterbug, or "electric light bug," as it is designated in Biological treatises, received a warm welcome at the Biology Building although no one was able to account for the long absence of the once familiar insect. Today, the bug is an interesting relic for shortly after its appearance it was sacrificed for the sake of science. It may be viewed in the bedroom of the Freshman where it is being preserved for future generations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN DISCOVERS BUG NOT SEEN IN EIGHT YEARS | 5/5/1933 | See Source »

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