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Word: beese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Sense of the Past. In Salt Lake City, Merrill Clement, 35, recalled high spots in his life since the age of four: stung twice by swarms of bees, kicked by a horse, struck by lightning, punctured in the stomach by falling on a stick while running away from a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 27, 1944 | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

¶ Still in the experimental stage, DDT does indeed kill bees and certain other beneficial insects, probably also affects the bird population by cutting down its source of food.-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 21, 1944 | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

In joint speaking bees with Cotton Ed up & down the state (as required by South Carolina custom) Governor Johnston boasted of how he had changed the state's laws to keep Negroes from voting. Said he: "Had it not been for my action, tomorrow you would be walking along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Curtains for Cotton Ed | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

The creation of Marian and Hanna Kister, the Roj (Beehive) Publishers was the biggest fiction publishing house in pre-Nazi Poland. Started after World War I with a cheap edition of Jack London, it grew by virtue of its translations (Proust, Sigrid Undset, Pearl Buck, Galsworthy) to 1 80 volumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polish Publishers | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

A fugitive from Tsarist Russia, Petrunkevitch was educated in Russia and Germany, married a U.S. girl in 1903, taught briefly at Harvard before he went to Yale. He wrote his first scientific work at about the same time that he published his first book of verse (Songs of Love and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spider Man | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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