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Word: hive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...roads were a mark for the 77's and larger German guns. The dead were just dragged to the side of the road. It was blazing hot, and you can well imagine the stench which prevailed with all of those dead men and horses around. The woods were a hive of living and mechanical apparatus, while the air howled with the crash of guns and the buzz of aeroplane motors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: START OF JULY ALLIED DRIVE DESCRIBED BY LETTERS FROM AMBULANCE CAPTAIN AND INFANTRY LIEUTENANT | 9/27/1918 | See Source »

...unit." In this connection Mr. Hubbard strongly recommended Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Life of the Bee" as the greatest book of the decade and as particularly applicable to our own affairs. "A bee alone has no intelligence, alone can make no honey or even support itself, but a hive of bees has a great and magnificent intelligence. If a man even fancies himself to be entirely alone his brain reels, his reason totters and he is incapable of thinking or acting in a rational manner. All our activities, whether of the mind or body must, therefore be bound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASIC NEED OF CO-OPERATION | 10/29/1914 | See Source »

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