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Mighty Gut. A termite digests cellulose with the help of the swarms of protozoa (one-celled animals) which teem in its guts. Since termites reduce cellulose (the toughest part of plants) to humus and provide food for new plants, their destruction of wood is really a vital part of the...
The U.S. art lover has cherished a touching picture of France's conquered but still defiant artists working away, cold and underfed, in their Paris garrets while the conquerors walked away with their work. Last week news came from Germany that a group of top-flight Left-Bank painters...
> Humorist James Thurber ("This little book needs more guts and less moon. . . If these are German officers ... I will eat the manuscript of your next play . . .").
Your allusion [TIME, May 25] to accepters of "A" gasoline-rationing cards as "meek, mild Milquetoasts" made me hopping mad. If cooperation with the Government in a critical situation denotes a lack of guts, we had better dig up Mr. C. Milquetoast's living counterpart to run the war...
A job requiring intellectual guts was handed out last week by a university which has notably displayed that quality. For Stanford's new School of Humanities, announced three months ago as the university's challenge to profounder troubles than war, a Professor of Humanities was chosen: Author-Critic...