Word: steers
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Scientists know that certain arthropods, including horseshoe crabs and bees (TIME, Jan. 1), can steer by the sun even when they cannot see it. All they need is a patch of blue sky. The light that comes from it is partially polarized,* and the direction in which the light vibrates shows the position of the sun. So the bees and crabs, whose eyes are sensitive to polarity, have only to look at the sky. It tells them where the sun is; then they steer by the sun, whether they...
...month helped cure Winner Rawls of a fast-developing slice. ¶ Choate Webster, 26, of Lenapah, Okla. and his horse Popcorn, permanent possession of the $5,000 Sam Jackson silver trophy; at the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup. For the third year in a row, Cowpoke Webster topped the field in steer roping, calf roping, and bulldogging, became the first cowboy to retire one of the most coveted awards of the rodeo circuit...
Unlike his artistic hero Turner, who was content to sleep on tavern tables on his cross-country art hikes (and once had himself bound to a ship's mast during a blizzard so he could observe the snow), Steer had a morbid fear of drafts, never went out in bad weather; on landscape sorties, he carried along a platform to keep his feet dry. To make sure of respectful treatment from train porters and inn servants, he lugged his painting gear in a cricketer...
Like a Horse. But there was nothing stuffy about Steer's view of his place in art. He told friends, "I have a third-class mind," answered praise by saying, "I muddle about and suppose something comes in the end." Of portraits he said, "It is merely a matter of giving [the] sitter the right amount of points-like a horse, you know." His own portraits lacked the distinction of his landscapes...
...time Steer died in 1942, his flukes, along with his solidly painted landscapes, had won him a reputation as one of England's finest modern painters. Last week, with Birkonians flocking to the big Steer show, the borough council thought up a special way to show the city's approval : they ordered a plaque for the old stone house where Wilson Steer was born...