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...Eastern Guatemala, Dr. Samuel J. Record discovered a tree never before known to science, named it the cow tree. From its bark, when slit, issues a creamy white latex, delicate in taste, nourishing to man and beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Leopard | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...these, and each affected cell stimulates ten of its neighbors (by this theory). Each of these ten stimulates a neighboring ten, and so on by geometrical proportion, until the influence of the original stimulus fades away. Such stimuli are normally brought to these cells in the grey cortex (bark) by the nerve fibres. These form the white core of the brain. (Naturally there are blood vessels and a variety of other cells in the brain as elsewhere in the human economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...Here are the expanding tire companies sicking the faithful Hoover on the British lion just when they are about to inflate prices. They want an alibi to gouge the public, so they bark at the East India rubber planter, whose empire protects him better than the Napoleonic sphinx of the White House, who, campaigning on the back of a cow, protects our farmers. [Laughter and applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Rubber | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

Before a meeting of the American Veterinary Association at Portland, Ore., stood a dog. Angered by the faces that festooned the air about him, the dog tried to bark, failed, tried again- and again only the dismal spectre of a bark issued from his inflamed throat. He laid his head down on his paws. Two sad-eyed goats stood nearby. For these goats had lost their happy bleats; they would converse no more. A veterinary surgeon, one Dr. F. R. Whipple, explained to the faces how simple it had been to remove the bark, the two bleats -as simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Veterinarians | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

...drivel-lines that biteless bark, and choose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/2/1925 | See Source »

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