Word: hive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...science of adding, subtracting and juggling numbers in a mystical and prophetic manner. There is a sizable hive of numerologists in the U. S., known as the Society of Enumeration, with headquarters in Los Angeles...
...ferment in Sculptor Kalish's native Cleveland. As everywhere, there were plenty of people to quarrel with the artist's anatomical exaggerations and inaccuracies; his tendency to pose a character rather than compose a type. But the majority marveled at his obvious sincerity and unusual power. Detroit, hive of industry, saw its own image and was content...
...strong ones like that of the forty-niner who "herded a hive of bees across the plains. Nope, never lost a single bee," are good listening. So are the innumerable and weird stories of lost Eldorados, which stories are adrift in every mining camp. They might even be mingled, but they should never be both mixed and then torn up into Cendrars's tense and broken diction--unsuccessful attempt toward atmosphere--with too liberal use of exclamation points...
...would seem that there must be a natural limit to the ability of a state to provide for its population. And in some this limit seems very near. When that time comes it will be as natural for a people to swarm as for a hive of bees. Where can the swarms...
Iowa State sent its forward passes winging against Wisconsin like a swarm of bees, but stingless, for line plunges by backs Radke, Crofoot and the brothers Harmon upset the hive. Score : Wisconsin 30, Iowa State...