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...Harvard's famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley, during a brief excursion into entomology many years ago, discovered that the hotter an ant was, the faster it ran-in fact, that you could tell the temperature of an ant by its rate of movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Speedup | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...been adroitly bargaining with Britain and Germany, haggling to see whether Democracy or Naziism would bid the higher. Portuguese ports have been alternately infested with British and German warships on "goodwill missions." According to London dispatches last week, a major bargain has now finally been struck by Portuguese Dictator António Oscar de Fragoso Carmona not with Hitler but with Chamberlain. The Germans had offered to sell armaments to Portugal and make immediate deliveries, but on barter terms-Portugal would have had to pay promptly in goods. The British outbid the Germans by offering Portugal armaments on credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Golden Bullets | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...ant its labor has begun, The woods with music ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ford Schools | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...human mind into its primary functions. He started with a tentative list of about half-a-dozen theoretical functions, created a set of 56 tests to probe them. Samples: ¶ Synonyms, anagrams-to test ability in the use of words. ¶ Disarranged true & false sentences: "large is an beast ant a"-to test perception. ¶ Tests of verbal reasoning: All pigs can fly, and all elephants are pigs, therefore all elephants can fly. Answer: The argument is correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mind Cracked | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Ant Colony Farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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