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...lecture Professor Frisch will also describe and illustrate with moving pictures his discovery of a kind of primitive language among these insects. When a foraging bee returns from the field after discovering an unusually rich source of honey, it performs a peculiar dance which excites the other bees to seek the new source of food...
...stand a pace, step a pace, to the rattle of the ears on the bangboard. White corn, yellow corn. 45 ears a minute thumping into the wagon. . . . An ordinary workman could not pick it up as fast as that even if it were husked. Red corn. . . . At a husking bee when you find a red ear you have a right to give your best girl a kiss...
...Charles Scribner Jr., wife of the Manhattan publisher, summering in Massachusetts, riding her Irish hunter, saw a farm horse, stung by a bee, go dashing away dragging a hay rake. Mrs. Scribner gave chase, followed the runaway up hill and down dale, around curves so sharp that one of them sent the hay rake zooming off by itself. Agile, she caught and subdued the horse...
...Bee Demonbru, Prohibition administrator for Western Oklahoma, hurried to the scene, made investigations, interviewed neighbors on Harris's reputation...
...subjects which was inadequately represented at Cambridge, and the realization of this added to the deep disappointment a few years ago, when an opportunity to secure a very large Italian collection had to be declined because the necessary money could not be secured. This loss has now bee mitigated to some extent through the rapid growth of the Italian collection in the library, made possible by the establishment by Mrs. Nash of a substantial fund in memory of Professor Bennett Hubbard Nash...