Word: ant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ant colonies draft their soldier armies and maintain balance in their incredible caste systems was cleared up last week by a Chicago zoologist. The secret: a "social hormone" exuded by some of the ants to inhibit the others...
...social insects,* ants are the most highly developed. As many as eleven castes stratify some ant species: even the simplest colonies contain queens, drones, workers, soldiers. The drone caste contains all the colony's few males, whose sole function is sexual. So is the queen's. But the workers and soldiers are all sterile...
...October 1920 the Rev. J. A. L. Singh, an Anglican missionary, was hunting among the pagan jungle tribes of northwest India. At a remote village he heard of a "man-ghost" who lived seven miles away under an old ant hill. Wary of tigers, Singh built a blind near the ant hill, settled down at dusk to watch...
Since 1454, when Gutenberg started using movable type, most printers and publishers have been glad that he simplified their job. But every once in a while some ant-shaming book designer has insisted on doing his printing as if Gutenberg had never existed, engraving each page laboriously by hand. Such a designer was William Blake, who a century and a half ago painstakingly etched a dozen books (with weird, mystical illustrations) on copper plates...
Soon Honest Harold Ickes, Public Works Administrator, got the idea that too many fat contracts were going to Robert & Co., and Henry Morgenthau (who succeeded Woodin) relieved Assist ant Robert of all but a few routine duties. Then newshawks caught Chip Robert and his wife-to-be, Evelyn Walker Robinson, at a dinner party given by a lobbyist for Utilityman Howard Hopson. Five months later Chip resigned...