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...Metabolism. In autumn and winter, the thyroid glands of pigeons enlarged and the pigeons' eggs were predominantly male. In spring and summer, small thyroids, female pigeons. One female, after hatching many clutches, actually turned male, sired a brood. (The significance of this research was that the thyroid principle, thyroxin, appeared to be more fundamentally connected with sex determination than the sex-cell chromosomes-Dr. Oscar Riddle, Carnegie Institute...
...primarily notable for the appearance over the Hollywood horizon of Constance Bennett, daughter of Richard Bennett. She shows much promise, fertile grace and panomimic adaptability. The burden of the story is well sustained on the screen, to wit, that if you but scratch the brass of the heedless young brood of today, you'll find true gold...
...brought glass sponges (similar to ordinary sponges but with fine glass skeletons) and volcanic rock. A traveling net was likewise used, attached to the cable at varying depths. This brought up a number of large-mouthed fishes (i.e., mouths huge as compared to bodies), a male pipefish with a brood pouch full of eggs, giant red shrimps, several octopi, fish with eyes on the end of stalks and a rare specimen, believed to be hitherto undescribed-a fish with scales resembling hair or feathers...
...surrounded by old friends and allies, and so we can consider this issue without panic, and calmly plan the measures for developing a scheme of defense that, however remote may be the possibility of danger, is none the less necessary to our national security and status. Let us not brood morbidly over remote perils, but, rather, take a sustained interest in the problem of defense which must be faced...
...contemporaries, is accepted at the present day by most people with only momentary qualms. Teaching a man a trade and allowing him to work for a living while under confinement is a much better way of moulding his future reactions to society than forcing him to brood in solitary confinement for a period of dull and fruitless years...