Word: waterbugs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Happy as a waterbug which has just swum around a bowl of soup, Dr. Wilbur Glenn ("The World is Flat") Voliva, frock-coated overlord of Zion City, Ill., last week landed in Manhattan after a cruise around the world. To him, of course, it had been a cruise around the edge of the world, the circumnavigation of a soup-plate whose centre is the North Pole...