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...full-blooded aborigines,* nearly half of whom live in isolated tribal groups in the Northern Territory, are "protected" by confused statutes restricting their movement, for bidding them to drink alcoholic beverages even if they remain sober and orderly, to own land or firearms, and to cohabit with white Australians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Civil Rights for Aborigines | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

Since it acquired papers of incorporation (TIME, Jan. 19), Blue Network Co. has been trying hard to live up to its divorce from NBC (though they still cohabit Radio City as RCA subsidiaries). Last week there were several tokens that a sort of selfhood had come to the Blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Blue Begins | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...community. Then the king & queen settle down to steady reproduction. The queen becomes a huge inert egg-laying machine with a production capacity of some 50,000 per day. The king is a tiny fellow whose main function is to be the queen's husband. They cohabit for life, which may last ten years. Their offspring feed them and each other with food either regurgitated or exuded through the skin. Some species sprout an edible fungus garden in which the young may graze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Termites | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

Lawyer Drummond has kept sane in the midst of her bewildering subject by keeping a tight grip on her sense of humor. She calls attention to a Kentucky case in which "a separation due to the wife's refusal to cohabit at all with her spouse is metaphorically described as 'an unfortunate failure to guide the marital craft into the port of happiness.' " If you like cider you may be pleased to learn that habitual use of it, not amounting to habitual drunkenness, is not grounds for divorce in New Hampshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Married & Burned | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

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