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...wrote a critic, "Maeterlinck discerned signs of an inevitable decadence of the human race . . . According to him, 2,000 years hence human relations will have declined to the level of life in a termite colony." The insects whose lives he studied for years seemed better off than people. "The ant is far less unhappy," wrote Maeterlinck, "than the very happiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Pursuit of Happiness | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Johnny Rockwell salvaged 18 import- ant points for the visitors to tie Chuck Whalen of Brown for runner-up honors. Frank Mahoney, top-heavy Brown center, was held to only 12 points by Ed Smith's fine guarding...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Brown Five Loses, 52-50; As Free Tosses Win Game | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...General Chiu Ching-chuan (whose second in command is the Gimo's younger son, Chiang Wei-kuo) broke up a Communist attempt at encirclement, and helped other Nationalist divisions to fight their way back to the west and south. The well-watered North Kiangsu plain seethed like an ant heap with soldiers on the move, as Government Field Commander General Tu Yu-ming desperately shifted his men over rutted roads and torn-up rail tracks to establish a new line with its back to the broad Yangtze. Past the military columns rattled slow trains of flatcars, jammed with refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Crescendo | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Statler's salons, they unpacked their special exhibits for the judges' inspection. One "young scientist had an ant hill; another brought a tesseract ("This is a three-dimensional representation," he explained, "of what a fourth-dimensional thing would look like, if there were a fourth dimension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top Juniors | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...believe that a shudder would go through the sky if our whole ant heap were kerosened. But then, it might-in short, my only belief is that I know nothing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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