Word: beese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hidden in a shadowy corner of the Luxembourg Gardens-where children, lovers and park bench sages still hold pre-eminence over visiting statesmen-stands a large, Government-owned bee colony. Its keeper, a white-bearded octogenarian named Ernest Baudu, lectures any stray stroller who will listen on the facts of...
In his remote corner of the palace gardens, near the children's marionette theater, the old beekeeper continued his lectures on the terrors of strife among bees in times of scarcity. But the old man found hope-for the bees. "Do not be distressed. Monsieur," he said, smilingly waving...
Plato with Honey. Most undergraduates have few dealings with the-vice-chancellor-from the moment he matriculates them at the start of their university careers until, some three years later, he drones out a Latin benediction, bangs them on the head, and hands them their degrees. But those "up at...
Summer was here. In its outward manifestations it was about average. There had been heat-nothing sensational-but enough to make an undertaker sweat and a dog hunt shade. Big city subways were beginning to smell, tenement fire escapes were draped with bedding, park benches were solid with sitters. Bugs...
A Marseilles businessman, Emille Bouche, sprayed a 20-acre orchard infested with cockchafers, killed them all in 21 minutes. Honey bees (normally vulnerable to DDT) seemed undamaged. To find out whether Activated DDT was toxic to animals, Bouche fed 400 hens for two weeks on an exclusive diet of poisoned...