Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feeding them the hormone did not work (they eliminated it too fast). So Lorenz injected pellets of the substance under their skin, let them absorb it slowly. The results were startling. In two to six weeks the roosters' red combs paled and shrank; they grew female feathers and a layer of fat; their pubic bones spread; they lolled around like capons. After roasting, they tasted much better than ordinary cockerels. When Lorenz treated stringy, dark-fleshed old roosters, their meat also became light and tender. Lorenz has tried his discovery only on chickens and turkeys, but biochemists...
Biggest change now ahead is the expected reorganization of the Eighth Air Force into tactical and strategic air forces, like the North African air command. Likeliest candidate to head the former is Annapolis-Man Lewis Brereton, who would absorb the Eighth's Air Support Command...
Thus, says Wiess, what the U.S. is saving by gasoline rationing is only enough to balance the decrease in gasoline production, leaving no fat to absorb the tremendous increase in overall demand. Can the U.S. boost production to meet this...
Ammunition: "Schedules have been cut back to absorb excess inventories...
Reluctant Guinea Pig. Some of Tom's stomach lining protruded in a rosette around the stoma. To absorb this membrane's secretions and the occasional leakage from inside, Tom wore a gauze bandage between meals. Sometimes the bandage irritated the rosette and it bled a little. When Tom worked as a sewer laborer during the depression, the bleeding got so bad that he had to let a surgeon remove some of the bleeding tissue. The convalescence was long and Tom had to go on relief. This hurt his pride-he had always managed to support his family...