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...insects. Some ants, wasps and bees are solitary; there are no solitary termites. They have three major castes: reproductives, workers and soldiers. With a male as well as a female reproductive in each colony, termites differ from all other social insects, which are matriarchic. They are the most fecund of all land animals. Some queens become enormously swollen with eggs, attaining a length of over five inches-20,000 times bigger than soldiers and workers. They produce as many as 7,000 eggs a day for incredible periods -sometimes as long as 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Termites Are Winning | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...belongs above all to the people immediately interested: the employers and the workers. . . . Every legitimate and beneficial interference of the State in the field of labor should be such as to guard and respect its personal character. ..." > On the Family: "In the family the nation finds the natural and fecund roots of its greatness and power. ... A so-called civil progress would be unnatural which-either through the excessive burdens imposed or through exaggerated direct influence-were to render private property void of significance, practically taking from the family and its head the freedom to follow the scope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope Speaks | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...Land: "Only that stability which is rooted in one's own holding makes of the family the most vital and most perfect and fecund cell of society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope Speaks | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Died. John Oxenham (real name: William Arthur Dunkerley), about 80, fecund British novelist and poet; near Worthing, Sussex. He wrote 67 books. His daughter, who calls herself Elsie Jeanette Oxenham, has already published 63. His World War I verse had a great vogue and his Hymn, For the Men at the Front sold 8,000,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 3, 1941 | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Felix Frankfurter is one of two U. S. Supreme Court Justices whose frankly close relationship with the White House is new in U. S. history. Wise, fecund Justice Frankfurter still supplies the New Deal with Happy Hot Dogs (example: brilliant young Henry Hart of Harvard's law faculty, who is working this summer in Mr. Jackson's Department of Justice). Anglophile Felix Frankfurter also continues to supply the President with advice; of late, their contact has become less & less formal, more & more personal and therefore more telling in its influence upon Roosevelt thinking and policy-both domestic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men Around the Man | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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