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Under Any Name. On the speaker's stand, Borghese talks loftily and in generalities. The more raucous Fascist political effects are left to the moth-eaten old (69) Lion of Ethiopia, Rodolfo Graziani, recently arrested for giving the Fascist salute at the funeral of Mussolini's sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Portrait of a Party | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...Life story included a step-by-step account of Williams' discovery of the two hormone-producing centers which collaborate to trigger the phenomenon of metamorphosis. Williams found the interdependent centers in the brain and the thorax of the moth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life Magazine Features Work Of Williams in Metamorphosis | 2/9/1952 | See Source »

...University biologist began his study of metamorphosis ten years ago and concentrated his experiments on the change of form of a moth species...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life Magazine Features Work Of Williams in Metamorphosis | 2/9/1952 | See Source »

...built up in the hot, dry air over the Rand. At noon, Swiss Engineer René Comte folded his wiry frame into the cramped, rubber-cushioned cockpit of his sleek Moswey (Buzzard) IV glider, fitted the bubble canopy in place and took off, towed by a sturdy little Tiger-Moth. With good luck he hoped to fly to Bloemfontein, 200 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Through the Thunderhead | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...British lion, which had seemed mangy and moth-eaten in Iran, put on a show of bared fangs that stunned the Egyptians. British Tommies, not overly tender with their bayonets, picked up Egyptian officials who were making trouble and booted them out of the zone. As the 40,000 Egyptian laborers who served the zone installations faded away, British tanks rumbled into neighboring villages and herded laborers into British-run camps. Said the British: they were not running press gangs, merely giving "safe conduct" to the workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Something's Got to Happen | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

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