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...final frame, Dow played a crack defense game for Harvard and Pruyn was on all parts of the ice at once. Baldwin shot the puck into the cage twice, and the Crimson men hovered around the Brown net like bees returning to the hive. Chase and Captain Brown put up an admirable defense throughout the game but could not stand against the Crimson tide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SWAMPS BRUINS IN UNEVEN HOCKEY TILT, 15-3 | 1/18/1933 | See Source »

...pabulum cradled in a hammock will find Authoress Eliat's Oriental tale breezy enough to keep them rocking comfortably. Perfumed with voluptuous myrrh and frankincense, it subtly insinuates a more acrid wind that whispers:-Vanity, all is vanity. "Except the next woman," wise King Solomon, ensconced in his hive of wives, says solomonly. When he hears that Balkis, Queen of Sheba. is coming to study his incomparable wisdom, he looks forward to the first lesson with extracurricular zeal. Queen Balkis, for her part, is drumming the floor of her rocking camel-litter with her heels, impatient to arrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Thousand & One Nighties | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

With 500 cold and sluggish bumble bees in a hive tucked under his arm, Michael W. Barrett walked into Boston's Hotel Statler one day last week. That afternoon he was to tell the New England Nurserymen's Association about beekeeping. In the cloakroom he checked his beehive. Miss May Hassey looked at Miss Dorothy Stayton and giggled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Beatty & the Beast | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...Grand Rapids, Mich.. thieves stole Jacob Popowicz's pet rabbit, returned another night and took his silverware. Third time they came Jacob Popowicz had prepared for them. He left them, and they seized a hive of bees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Stamps | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

Climax of the Salt Lake celebration was a pageant, witnessed by 20,000 in the stadium of the University of Utah where Miss Young is a junior. Here she emerged from a hive as the Queen Bee of Deseret (the honey bee of the Book of Mormon, symbol of industry). Other features of the pageant included Indian dances, Brigham Young's declaration "This is the place!" as he led his followers down into the valley, the seagulls which ate the crickets and saved the settlers' first crop, the driving of the gold spike at Promontory Point marking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Frontier Days | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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