Word: weaverization
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...half-dressed, badly in need of a pickup, lectures the peasantry in the bar on gentlemanly behavior. Another story tells how little Jimmy holds the sheep still while his mother shears them, watches her spin the wool into white thread, goes with her to leave the yarn at the weaver's house, and finally watches the tailor work the finished cloth up into a suit. Then comes the punch line: "The little suit fitted perfectly and on the following Sunday Jimmy was the envy of all the other village boys as he went to church...
Temperamental Artist. Not all spiders make prey-catching webs. Of the web-makers, the genus Aranea is the master weaver and engineer. Aranea spins the familiar but complicated "orb web" a large number of segmented rings on a framework of 25 to 35 spokes. Although the typical orb web may have 13,000 or more tie-lines, the spider makes a new web every day, and, like a temperamental artist, never deigns to do repair work. She* puts glue on the silk to make it sticky. To prevent quick drying (or for some other reason), the glue is concentrated...
Donald J. Mulvey, Phillips Andover; David E. Pingree, Phillips Andover; Arthur N. Stowe, Phillips Exeter; Edward B. Curtis, Phillips Exeter; Reginald L. Hannaford, Fryeburg Academy; George D. Langdon, Jr., Pomfret School; Edward J. Wawszkiewicz, Mount St. Charles Academy; Eric Klinger, Warren G. Harding School; Marshall A. Berman, Weaver High; Theodore H. Johnson, New Britain High; William Tifft, Seymour High; Charles S. McCarthy, Jr., Crosby High; Jack J. Neusner, William H. Hall School...
...first episode occured just one half hour after midnight, Thursday. Two Cambridge residents, George Weaver, 20, of 200 Brattle Street, and George Milanco, 24, of 20 Oxford Street were walking through the Cambridge Common when two men attacked them from behind. Weaver's suit coat was pulled over his head. He shouted, he was knocked to the ground by the assailants. When he get up his wallet was missing, and the men had gone...
...Weaver immediately ran for the police. When they returned to the scene of the crime they found the wallet, money inside, lying on the ground. Police conjectured that the bandits were scared away...