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Some bacteria thrive on the blackest, gummiest oil. When a wild well sprays the neighborhood, it poisons the soil for vegetation. But in a year or so, the oil is gone. Bacteria have eaten it up and fertilized the soil with their corpses, leaving it richer than before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Oil Bugs | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...Minister and Aristide Briand retains his pet post of Foreign Minister. Thus it came about that Edouard Herriot had to go out to Pons, last week, as Minister of Fine Arts, and there dedicate a statue of such controversial and inflammatory sort that it plunged him headlong into the gummiest kind of political mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Sacred Union Out | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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