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Word: zilla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles' Kerckhoff Mansion, which belongs to the University of Southern California, 70 small spiders (Zilla x-notata) are living in pampered luxury. Their room is air-conditioned, and every day delicious flies are handed to them alive. They have little paper cones to live in and water to drink from cups made of soda straws. Being creatures of inflexible habit, they spin beautifully regular webs in frames supplied for the purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Schizoid Spiders | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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