Word: bee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boys aren't good spellers because they aren't smart enough," volunteered twelve-year-old Contestant Nancy McDaniel last week. To prove it she pointed to her fellow finalists in the National Spelling Bee: 18 were girls, ten boys. But a few minutes later Nancy was out, for misspelling liar. About 400 words later, there were a boy and a girl left, each 13. The boy, shy and nervous, was John McKinney of Woodbine, Iowa (pop. 1,350); the girl, cool and confident, was Mary McCarthy of New York City...
...flower painting she brings a technique familiar in photography but seldom attempted on canvas: the dramatic closeup. Like a bee, she explores the innermost recesses of hollyhocks, irises and morning-glories, and manages to extract an almost cloying degree of honey-sweet, cream-smooth satisfaction from them...
...bee knows the signs. When a foraging worker returns to the hive laden with pollen or nectar, she executes a stylized dance proclaiming her success. Fellow workers, by smelling the dancing bee, can tell at once what kind of flower she has been playing around with. Off they zoom hopefully, searching for like-smelling flowers...
...current Entomological News, Dr. Rudolf G. Schmieder of the University of Pennsylvania told how science has learned these signs and put them to use. First to interpret the bee law of dance and scent was Professor Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich. Near a hive he placed a square of cardboard perfumed with bergamot oil, and on it a dish full of sugar syrup. Fifty yards away he arranged a row of cards. None offered syrup, but each had a different scent. One was oil of bergamot...
...Varsity's four tallies were chalked up in the first inning. Don Swegan topped a pitch, sending it bouncing down the third base line, and beat out the pitcher's throw. He stole second and, after Pete Petrillo had bee walked, made third base when Bob Brownell, Bruin shortstop who was credited with four errors for the contest, fumbled Bill Fitz' grounder...