Word: butted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explorers are flag planters. But Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in his flight across unexplored Antarctica to the South Pole last week dropped no emblems of U. S. sovereignty (see page 64). Domain over the ice-locked continent at Earth's bleak nadir seemed likely to be determined not by...
When the Byrd Expedition embarked more than a year ago, the British Government forwarded to the U. S. State Department a note expressing polite interest in the U. S. venture, but at the same time carefully detailing British claims to most of the Antarctic continent and surrounding archipelagoes.
Continuing the researches of his great preceptors, Dr. Calmette with his associate C. Guérin, a veterinary surgeon, discovered that the descendants of the tuberculosis bacillus, bred for many generations in ox bile and glycerine, lost their virulency but could establish immunity in young animals against potent tuberculosis germs. In...
How succulent the flesh of unborn animals is, few civilized people know.* Civilized sentiment obscurely associated with motherhood generally forbids its eating. U. S. Government regulations have codified that sentiment by prohibiting the marketing of unborn cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses.† There is no medical reason and no stringent...
"But the Prince! The Prince sends word that he is particularly anxious that you appear properly clothed. There are a great many prominent society women in the audience."