Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clair Bee is a 50-year-old dynamo with more jobs than most men tackle in a lifetime. In addition to being athletic director and assistant to the president of Long Island University (enrollment: 4,200), busy Bee writes a regular column for the New York Journal-American, manages a productive upstate New York farm, and also turns out magazine articles and books of fact & fiction for children (twelve published). These activities are just Bee's sidelines. His main job: basketball coach of L.I.U., the team with the best early-season record in the East...
...Bee's passion for work started when he was orphaned at nine and had to make his own way through high school and college (Ohio State, Waynesburg, Rider and Rutgers), where he earned five degrees (B.S., A.B., B.C.S., M.C.S. and M.A.) and played football, basketball and baseball. This unrelenting will to work shows up in Bee's coaching. "I work my players harder [three hours a day] than any other coach in the business," Bee says pridefully. " work 'em, bawl 'em out, browbeat 'em . . . and they hate me." Though his players may not actually hate...
...deadeyed Forward Sherman White poured in 24 points for the L.I.U. Blackbirds to boost his three-year point production to 1,053. Long-legged Sophomore Center Ray Felix (6 ft. 11 in.) tapped in ten more L.I.U. points before he fouled out. These two lanky Negroes are Bee's main scoring threats, but because opposing teams concentrate their defense against them, Bee's other sharpshooters also get plenty of scoring chances. Says hard-to-please Clair Bee, who knows that 30% is a good basket-shooting average: "I expect my boys to hit the basket...
Wags for Distance. To tell about sources 100 meters or more from the hive, the scout bee does another dance. It wags its abdomen from side to side, runs forward a few steps, turns around, runs forward and wags again. The more rapid the turning and wagging, the closer the honey lies. Dr. von Frisch fed scout bees at varied distances from the hive and timed the tempo of their dancing. He found that when they made nine or ten complete dance cycles in 15 seconds, it meant that the honey flowers were 100 meters away. Seven cycles meant...
...scout bee also points out the direction. On its way back from the honey-find, it has noted (probably by means of apparatus built into its compound eyes) the direction in which the light of the sky is polarized.* This tells the position of the sun even when the sun is not directly visible. When the scout bee steps forward during its wagging dance, the direction in which it steps tells the other bees where to fly. If it moves vertically upward on the comb face they know they should fly toward the sun, guided by polarized sky light...