Heat regulates the speed of ants. At SOdeg F., they run 52 feet an hour; at lOOdeg, 780 feet an hour. By glancing at a thermometer, a ■ Harvard scientist found he could tell within 5 per cent, of how fast an ant would be moving. .And by timing an ant, he could, he said, determine within one degree how hot the. day was.
A navy man never speaks of other sailors ass "Jack Tars." That is purely a landlubber's term-. To his fellows a pailor is either "FJatfoot" or "Matelot." The first of these two names comes from the days when sailors wore no shoes and were subject to foot trouble. The second is French for sailor, and was picked vi) during the wars with Franct.
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Evening Post, Issue 52, 2 March 1935, Page 6
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