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...offspring until enough workers have grown up to take care of the 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 »

...have become increasingly and gradually clearer.'' Speaking in French he said, "Art is like ham-it nourishes people." The interpreter translated jambon as "food." The audience shouted "Ham!" and Rivera nodded. He concluded, "Because there is a logic of history, the RCA Building will assume its real function-the time depends upon the will of the workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rockefellers v. Rivera | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...course in Design has been revised to amalgamate the aesthetic design, the construction and the function of building for the treatment of special problems. In the field Harvard has twice won the French government medal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL PLANS NEW CURRICULUM | 4/26/1933 | See Source »

...course, besides being necessary for most physics and chemistry courses, is excellent for training the mind in logic and developing one's powers of deduction. It is in this latter function that the course justifies its existence as an alternative for Philosophy A in the distribution requirements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 4/26/1933 | See Source »

...Munck as musical director. After many conferences, many misgivings, Munck let himself be won over by Roth-stein's young ally, Cecilia. Then began months of confusing, exhausting work for Munck as Rothstein's errand boy while the great buildings went up. With the Lyceum ready to function Munck thought he could at last start doing a job he was fitted for, but he soon found he was nothing but a figurehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

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