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...TIME agrees with Poet Fletcher that good poetry is sometimes socially useful, hopes he will agree that poetry's properest study is not society's ant-hill but man's heart and mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...this supremely disastrous achievement of holding a totally unsuitable economic ant social system in place by sheer force would have been unthinkable if Russia had possessed the safeguard of democracy-in the simplest sense of the existence of responsible and representative gownment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bad Start | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...fifth gold medal for his Complete Poems, judged the book published in the last five years "most likely to attain the stature of a classic." Speaking to 300 breakfast guests, he became flustered for a moment and couldn't remember the opening lines of his famous poem about ants in a hive burying a fellow ant, which concludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Ant. The genus Harpagomyia preys on ants. The mosquito alights in front of an ant and holds it tightly with its forelegs. After a while the ant opens its mouth. The mosquito inserts its proboscis and sucks up food which the ant squeezes from its stomach. Both parties seem to enjoy this interchange. The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mosquito Mysteries | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Mother, God & the U.S." This week, for the first time since Dom Pedro's visit, another Brazilian chief of state was due in the U.S. During his ten-day stay, President Eurico Caspar Dutra, accompanied by his son António João Dutra, his daughter-in-law, and his naval aide Raul Reis, will be the guest of Harry Truman, whom he entertained in Rio in 1947. He will address a joint session of Congress, lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, spend three days in Manhattan, and fly south to inspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Visit from a Friend | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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