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...hunter, can bowl over her hard-shelled victims with a saddle shot that pierces a tiny chink in the beetle's armor and penetrates precisely to its central nerve-control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant's head until its narrowly watching eyes tire of keeping track of this baffling tennis game. Then, quicker than human eye can follow, she darts onto the mantis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Friendly Sharpshooter | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...noted, to 'seeing Lieut. F. stalk through the office with a cigar in one hand and a pair of pink panties in the other.' " The heraldic section of the Quartermaster General's office submitted designs for insignia. A first attempt "produced only a busy-bee-like insect, which Mrs. Hobby pronounced a bug, adding that she had no desire to be called the queen bee. Designers then hit upon the idea of a head of Pallas Athene, a goddess associated with an impressive variety of womanly virtues and no vices either womanly or godlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: My Best Soldiers | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Eugene G. Rochow, professor of Cheruistry, for studies of methods of teaching graduate inorganic chemistry; James E. Storer, assistant professor of Applied Physics, for research on the analysis and synthesis of microwave filters; Carroll M. Williams, professor of Zoology, for studies of insect growth and metamorphosis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eleven of Faculty Get Guggenheim Grants for Study | 4/26/1955 | See Source »

...stem from the fact that he spent at least a thousand nights in the Yoshiwara, and that the girls in his designs are impossibly tall and willowy.) Actually Utamaro's work shows as much range as refinement. His first important series of prints was a book of insect studies, and his greatest depicts the wilderness upbringing of Kintaro, the Japanese Hercules. Kintaro Reaching for Chestnut is as healthy-minded, tender and acute a study of maternal devotion as Japanese art affords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: OUT OF THE FLOATING WORLD | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...U.S.D.A. entomologists are figuring out how many sterilized males wil be needed to hunt down all the females in the state of Florida. They are even hoping to use the same method to exterminate other insect pests whose females are equally monogamous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fatal Monogamy | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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