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...pollen trap also enables apiarists to increase their swarms. In winter bees subsist on stored-up honey and pollen. A beekeeper who carefully gleans bee-dropped pollen, then feeds it back to his swarms in more generous quantities than the bees themselves would store it, will find his insects from 25 to 100% more numerous at winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Keep 'Em Flying (Bee Dept.) | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Department of Agriculture officials this year are urging beekeepers to increase their swarms. Reason: sugar shortage. Signs of the bee's new importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Keep 'Em Flying (Bee Dept.) | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...tiny cymbals and strummed the twangy, long-necked tambura, a flute spun its single thread of melody. In the traditional Indian dance-forms, the dancers moved hands, arms, shoulders, necks, more purposively than their feet. Lithe, hollow-cheeked Bhupesh Guha became the god of spring, his fluttering hand a bee alighting on a flower to drink honey. Willowy Sushila was the lotus-born Lakshmi, placing buds at the feet of Vishnu, her arms and hands moving with the deliberate grace of a cobra. Bhupesh Guha became a hunter with tasseled spear, stalking the tiger, wary, fleet, then charging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dances of Hindustan | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...crowded Washington set a different bee buzzing in the bonnet of Indiana's Representative Earl Wilson. He thought there ought to be a 10 p.m. curfew to help Heaven protect the Government working girl. The girls all said that Heaven was plenty of protection, thank you very much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Are You a Parasite? | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...When bee-busy little Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week boom-buzzed into office (by a slim plurality of 133,841) as New York City's first third-term mayor, a crack in the Democratic Party widened to a crevasse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Division Among Democrats | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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