Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slumberous and soporific as the drone of a bumble bee is the atmosphere of German feudalism in which dwells with dignity Der Obergruppenführer Herzog von Coburg. The Herzog or Duke of Coburg is the Head of the Family of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. This was the name of the British Royal Family before it was changed to Windsor in 1917. Therefore last week European socialites were agog to see what kind of dinner the Duke of Coburg would give in Nürnberg for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Would the greatest ladies of the House of Coburg...
...villain of the garden world is an immigrant, the praying mantis, which compares to a bee as a dinosaur would to a man-were the dinosaur 60 feet long with eyes big as plate-glass windows and paws as long as automobiles. The praying mantis, harmless to man, has an insatiable appetite for insects, is willing to fight with anything edible up to cats and dogs-except ants. So voracious is the mantis' appetite for live food that when mating is completed, or sometimes even during mating, the female attacks the smaller male, holds him between powerful pincers, calmly...
...plant louse), which reproduces by parthenogenesis (without mating), gives birth to males only in autumn, is so prolific that if all descendants of one aphid could possibly survive throughout a summer, their mass weight would be 822,000,000 tons. Most intelligent insect: the ant, though the wasp and bee run it a close second. Most surprising insect: the dragon fly, which is so fond of live meat it will even eat parts of itself, starting at the tail and eating toward its mouth...
Civil War Telegraph Operator Edward ("Little Rosie") Rosewater started the Omaha Bee ("Industry, Frugality and Service") in 1871 to further his dabblings in old guard Republican politics, carried the paper to national fame before his death in 1906. The politically powerful Bee began to slip under Son Victor Rosewater, did little better under millionaire Politician Nelson B. Updike who bought it in 1920, and was not helped when Updike merged it with the moribund Daily News, a onetime Scripps unit...
Splitting the paper will add $500,000 a year to costs. Part of the increase will be salaries of the 40 Bee News employes (out of 400) who were absorbed by the World-Herald...