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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mighty Gut. A termite digests cellulose with the help of the swarms of protozoa (one-celled animals) which teem in its guts. Since termites reduce cellulose (the toughest part of plants) to humus and provide food for new plants, their destruction of wood is really a vital part of the vegetative cycle of growth and decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Termites Are Winning | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

With a change in problem plans, the Varsity soccer teem will meet the Royal Marinen of H.M.S. Newcastle on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock innate of tomorrow is announced. The championship British team will afford the Varsity is warm-up tray be fore its official opened this Saturday against Tuffs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Meet Sailors | 9/30/1941 | See Source »

Twenty of the most brilliant families of New England teem with one form of insanity: manic-depressive psychosis. Such is the opinion, published last week by famed Boston Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson. His sources: century-old case records in McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass., one of the oldest private hospitals in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Success and Insanity | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...have become soft and soggy with temporary abundance. Even the enormous debt stirs only the few. We are satisfied with a promised security, unearned and easy. Our thoughts teem with greed and every man for himself. May I say that is not the American way. Our country was not founded upon those ideas, but by striving and toiling and saving and building-a unity among men with a definite goal-America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Judgment of Johnson | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Last week hardworking, hearty Painter Fiene finished his most ambitious job: two murals for the auditorium of Manhattan's Central High School of Needle Trades. Biggest uninterrupted murals in the U. S. (17 ft. by 65 ft. each), they teem with 200-odd overneat, idealized figures (53 portraits), tracing the history of the needletrades industry, from immigrant and sweatshop to labor unions and built-in swimming pools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fiene's Whopper | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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