Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine paintings, "Cyclamen," "Spider Wort," "Yellow Iris," "Spring Flowers," "Victorian Parlour," "Autumn Flowers," "Peonies," "Still Life," and "Bee Balm" are arranged over the book shelves, which are covered with light brown paper to give a monotone background...
Anatol Josepho is remembered as the "Smart-Immigrant-Who-Made-a-Million" with his Photomaton. Born in Omsk, Siberia, Josepho reached Manhattan with $30 in his pocket and a bee in his bonnet. He got imposing backing: venerable old Henry Morgenthau Sr., father of the Secretary of the Treasury, became chairman of the board of directors of Photomaton Corp., and Major General Robert Courtney Davis, onetime Adjutant General of the Army, became president of the company. Inventor Josepho got a check for a flat...
...spirit of vast good will James Aloysius Farley invited the employes of the Post Office Department in Washington to a handshaking bee. The staff lined up, began filing past their beaming boss. To each the Postmaster General wished a cheery "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year," or, if the employe beat him to that, a jovial "The same to you." At the 500 mark the Farley handshake and greeting had grown automatic. The 1,000th guest found him shaking feebly, speaking thickly. Employe No. 1,089 was a young woman who gigglingly exclaimed : "So you are the Postmaster General?" Mumbled...
Entomologist Frank Eugene Lutz of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History has discovered that bees can see ultraviolet light. If the bee's food receptacle is labeled with a card painted ultraviolet-white, the bee will soon learn to select that card among plain white cards which to the human eye seem indistinguishable from the one selected. No entomologist would use this visual faculty to lure to destruction the useful honey bee. But in Lafayette, Ind., scientists of Purdue University pondered ways of coping with the codling moth', a mottled, foreshortened little creature whose larvae develop...
Score--Harvard 40, B.U. 24. Goals--Grady 6, Gray 6, Lavietes 3, Goldstein 3, Kelley 2, Mathers 2, Moser 1, White 1, Fisher 1, Luiz 1, Rabinowitz 1, Weather bee 1. Fouls--Comfort 3, Luiz 3, Ernst 1, Grady 1, White 1, Mathers 1. Referee--Kelleher. Umpire--Amiott. Time--Two 20-minute periods...