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...cattle thymi (sweetbreads). Nothing unusual seemed to happen, except that the females produced more babies than undosed females. Dr. Rowntree dosed the babies, but got no more obvious results than a continued statistical excess of births. Third, fourth and subsequent generations, however, proved astonishing. Rats generally do not breed before they are 50 to 70 days old. But one of Dr. Rowntree's third-generation rats became a mother when she was only 42 days old. One of the fourth-generation rats was a father at 29 days. They and all the rats of their generations were...
...because they attack buffaloes but because they have humps on their backs. Broad winged, black or brown bodied, they are less than half the size of a house fly. Commonest in the Mississippi Valley, they are closely related to the black flies which pester humans farther north. Buffalo gnats breed in swift-flowing streams, attaching their wormlike larvae to the downstream side of a large rock or log. After a month or six weeks the larvae spin cocoons, soon emerge full-grown. The first spell of warm weather sends them swarming to fields and barnyards...
...improving the Fair Grounds at New Orleans, sold out in 1932 and bought heavily into Joseph E. Widener's Hialeah Park at Miami. His feelings about horses themselves are a strange mixture of sentimentality and practicality. "I love horses," he says, "and I'll always breed them. They're like children, needing the same care and treatment, subject to all sons of ailments. . . ." He thinks he was fondest of a filly named Bit of White, whose only claim to fame was a track record at Louisville. "She was like a bit of Dresden china, a friendly, intelligent...
...everything else. Jim, the illegitimate son of her kindly, easy going husband, Captain Jacox of the "River Belle", is trained in the ways of Selina, and sacrificing love, honor, friendship, everything to the lust for power, dies unsatisfied. His son, Howard becomes a Communist agitator, married a half-breed Indian for love, finds happiness, as the old Captain, his grandfather has found it, in helping others
...absolute essential before the close of Congress is passage of all nine appropriation bills to finance the government during the next fiscal year. All but two of these bills have passed the House. Only five have passed the Senate. The danger with appropriation bills is that, if delayed, they breed last-day filibusters...