Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With delicate and precise instruments, Biologist C. H. Ellis studied many kinds of spiders, including tarantulas and the poisonous black widow. Microscopic examination of their leg membranes, joints, tissues and nerves got him nowhere. But he noticed that even a dead spider leg would stretch if he squeezed it gently. He then injected liquids into spiders' legs with a superfine hypodermic and got some very satisfactory stretching. When he dehydrated spiders by keeping them for several weeks without water, they lost their stretching ability and walked with bent legs...
Maude Curtis, with her small daughter, headed for her husband's home in Mervin, Sask., not as a bride but as a widow. Her husband died in England...
Libby Holman, blues-singing widow of the late tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, asked the Manhattan trustees of her eleven-year-old son Christopher Smith Reynolds' $7,000,000 estate to release $435,183.57 for the purpose of building him a "suitable and attractive" house...
...First Widow...
...TIME, Jan. 31, you State that Marietta McGregor Payne, in announcing her candidacy for the Texas State Legislature, became the first U.S. hero's widow of World War II to run for political office. For your information, I wish to state that in a contested election, held in October of 1942, I was elected to the State Legislature of Connecticut from the city of Bristol...