Word: wingless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most termite colonies are divided into five castes, apparently determined in the egg. Topping the social scale are the king & queen. They have wings and reproduce. Next come two wingless courtier castes, also fertile, which may step into the reproductive breach if king or queen should die. To the termite proletariat belong the pinheaded, speck-brained workers which do all the damage (see cut, left), the soldiers big of head & jaws. More potent than the fighter shown (cut, right) is a type with retort-shaped head from which it squirts a pungent secretion on its enemies, chiefly ants. These...
...times the wingless body turned over in space, then?Crash! Witnesses ran to the wreck, fearful of what they were about to see. A mechanic opened a steel casket in the pile of debris and out stepped M. Sauvant with the smiling grace of a circus acrobat. Later the inventor told-the-world...
...Last week in London it was discovered that Senor Juan de la Cierva, inventor of the Autogiro, has built and flown a wingless craft which attains terrific speed, ascends steeply and descends gently by means of 'giro-like vanes...
...cooked and ate them, kept life going till a cruising Chinese pilot saw his beacon. Author Garnett ends his story thus: "When they fell in waterless desert places they died; where they passed they left desert ; they sprouted wings and flew. Their seed sprang again in wingless armies from the earth. They had no reason and little that might be called instinct. All their movements are due to the heat of the sun. They are thermotropic...
...control plane with an instructor. Last week at Glenn Curtiss airport, N. Y. a new method was introduced, to give students the ''feel" by letting them "fly solo" before leaving the ground. Equipment used: i) a glider mounted to swing in the blast of a fan; 2) an almost wingless "kiwi" or taxiplane which scoots around the field but cannot rise and which has strong hoops in front to protect the tyro if he noses over; 3) an ordinary glider; 4) a low-powered training plane...