Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Interest. This mating system favors cross-fertilization between colonies, but is hard on bee breeders, who can never be sure that an interloper male has not outdistanced more desirable suitors. Bee men tried putting a nubile queen in a large tent with a retinue of drones. Both sexes just tried to get out. They even tethered a queen with a thread, in the hope that she would fly round & round, pursued by drones, until she was in the mating mood. This did not work either. Apparently bees will mate only when flying freely...
...many at the auction, Doré's paintings looked like tremendously outsized Sunday school chromos darkened by varnish and dirt. In the general murk, Moses could be discerned gesticulating at Pharaoh, a sad-faced monk daydreamed over an organ, pagan gods fell in a heap beneath a cross, and Paolo and Francesca embraced in hell. Critics wondered how the great illustrator could possibly have turned out such daubs...
VARSITY FOOTBALL Sept, 27Western Maryland Oct. 4 B.U. Oct. 11 Virginia at Charlottesville Oct. 18 Holy Cross Oct. 25 Dartmouth Nov. 1 Rutgers Nov. 8 Princeton Nov. 15 Brown Nov. 22 Yale at New Haven VARSITY SOCCER Oct. 4 Tufts at Medford Oct. 10 Army at West Point Oct. 18 Amherst at Amherst Oct. 25 Dartmouth Nov. 1 W're'ster P.I. at W're'ster Nov. 8 Princeton Nov. 15 Brown Nov. 21 Yale at New Haven JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL Oct. 24 Dartmouth Oct. 31 Open Nov. 7 Princeton Nov. 14 Brown at Providence Nov. 21 Yale...
...Take to the hills, men!" may be the rallying cry of cross country coach Jaakko pronounced Yahko) Mikkola when he greets his 1947 Freshman and Varsity pavement pounders at Dillon Field House this afternoon...
...indicated that more is at stake than a successful cross country season. With definite Olympic possibilities like Don Trimble and Sam Felton returning next spring in the field events, the Harvard coach plans to use the forthcoming harrier season as a means of revitalizing his anemic middle distance and distance forces so they can keep pace with the high point...