Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clinicians have given prolactin to human mothers to stimulate milk production. Result: some successes, some failures. In the failures, however, the mammary tissue of the mother was usually itself deficient. The job of preparing the mammary tissue for nursing seems to belong to the sex hormones estrone and progesterone. Prolactin's job is to start milk secretion after the breasts are ready...
...book-the 1938 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships. Compiled in Britain, this Who's Who of warships describes, classifies and pictures the armed vessels of the world so that naval officers who spot them on the horizon can tell at a glance to what nation they belong, what type of ship they are, and make preparations to fight or run away. Each year Jane's brings the compendium of marine armed forces up to date with details of new ships, alterations and ships projected. Biggest known buyer of the book: the Japanese Navy, which purchases...
...ships that sail the North Atlantic, only ten belong to the U. S. Lines. But in the past 15 years hundreds of imperiled seafarers owe their lives to the hail-fellow flag that the fleet flies from its Johnny-on-the-spot main masts...
...improvement are groups like Our Reading Club of San Antonio (&Oldest in Texas/' a claim bitterly disputed by the Browning Club of Waco), which meets in an arty, 102-year-old Mexican hut to read carefully prepared papers on subjects like &Art in Literature.& In the same category belong Nashville's Friday Morning Literary Club, which began as the Tea and Repartee Club 43 years ago, San Francisco's Cap and Bells (200 members) which assembles in the swank Fairmont Hotel...
...there the barking dog is muzzled; for without a center or paid manager to organize teams, practices, and games the dormitories are helpless. Yet now that their right to belong in the intra-mural system has been recognized, it should be possible to go the whole hog and give them a center--(a bulletin board in the Athletic Building would suffice)--manager, and permission to participate in other House sports. And governed by the existing rules, which forbid men on probation to play on winning House teams against Yale, there would not exist the disparity of strength manifested...