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...Eastern research, is playing a major role in bringing the U.S. into a global educational setup. For two weeks every month Paul Hanna leaves his wife and children and a Palo Alto hilltop which in peacetime was a tripper's cynosure: a redwood, cement and sheet-glass honeycomb architectured by Frank Lloyd Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Commerce for Children | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...ward off the first blows. Malta's metal was well tested. So far in World War II, Malta has had nearly 2,000 air raids and is still unconquered. Attacks last week sometimes lasted from dawn to dark, but the raid-toughened Maltese, using the caverns which honeycomb the island as air-raid shelters, carried on much as usual. Even the goats were so learned in raids that they flounced into ditches when the sirens wailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steppingstones | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

Wendell Willkie, the bear that walks like a Republican, scooped out some honeycomb wisdom for his political followers. What should be the role of a political opposition in wartime? Said he to the National Women's Republican Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Thing to Do | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Ethel Waters does four of her songs from Cabin in the Sky for Liberty Music Shops, unfortunately with the pit orchestra from the show. Honey in the Honeycomb sounds best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: January Records | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Anyhow, I dug the well, at 4205 feet, we hit the prettiest most porous honeycomb oil saturated lime that I ever saw, we dug almost 100 feet of that oil saturation and this morning just before seven o'clock, she blew way over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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