Word: beese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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If even the well-sheltered pygmies go up in the explosion, the bereft earth may have to fall back on the descendants of "the winged insects [which came] into existence about 250 million years ago." Could these ants and bees "acquire even that glimmer of intellectual understanding that man has...
Every well-instructed child eventually learns about the bees and the flowers.* Like busy cupids, bees fly from flower to flower, carrying pollen from the anthers" (male organs) and dusting it on the pistils (female organs). In a state of nature, this relatively simple service is all the outside help...
But in overcivilized modern orchards the trick does not always work. Many high-bred apple trees, for instance, have flowers that refuse to be fertilized by pollen of their own variety. They demand pollen from other varieties, which the local bees seldom supply.
Some up-to-date orchardists attempt to solve the problem by pinch-hitting for the bees. They collect pollen of an acceptable type and dust it from airplanes upon the choosy flowers. Orchardman Leo C. Antles of Wenatchee, Wash, prefers the natural way. He has just acquired a patent on...
Vertical City. Last week, peering excitedly through thick, black-rimmed glasses at the models for his new building, he was still blasting away at everybody who didn't see things his way. "Garden cities are just a waste of space. Rows of houses, each one cutting off the view...