Classes in family and social relationship are held in some of the American colleges for women. It is not surprising that flies big and little make such a fuss when they become entangled' in the net of spiders’ webs. Professor Inglis, of Cambridge, has stated that spiders’ filament has a tensile strength of 560 tons to the square inch, eight times as great as steel.
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Southland Times, Issue 21848, 27 October 1932, Page 6
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