Word: caging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, nor Director Leonard George Rowntree of the Philadelphia Institute for Medical Research knew precisely what they were talking about when they reported these God-like doings in coop and cage last week. Chemists were still analyzing the substances used. But results were as clear as startling, and threw knowledge upon the gland which in cattle is called sweet bread, in children the thymus. The thymus, one of the potent ductless glands, lies just behind the breastbone immediately above the heart. Only occasion when...
Heavy curtains draped a cage in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo last week. Zoomen tiptoed up, peeked, whispered excitedly. Inside what looked like a ridiculously shriveled old shanty Irishman- wrinkled of face and belly, with reddish sideburns and a reddish fringe about its round, bald head-clung to its 110-lb. mother's hairy leg and squeaked. Daughter of the Zoo's Jiggs and Nancy, it was 10 in. long, weighed 2¼lb. and was, so far as zoo officials knew, the fourth orangutan ever born in a U. S. zoo. Zoomen had to leave...
...line with Mayor Russell's economy program, all Cambridge's forces of law and order are being centralized in Central Square. At present all records have been cleared out of the aged and decrepit cop-cage and no more men report there; one man only works in the musty interior taking care of the call-box reports, and as soon as wiring to Central Square is installed he too will be withdrawn, and the edifice left for a pussy-cat's hunting ground...
Pointing to the Amherst game tomorrow, Coach Fred Mitchell put his Varsity squad through a long session at Soldiers Field yesterday. The afternoon started with batting practice on the outdoor diamond, but operations were transferred to Briggs Cage as the day grew colder. Today the Varsity is slated to play the Jayvees...
...Michigan "human rabbit"; by his own hand (hanging) after murdering his wife; near Imlay City, Mich. Nine years ago "Human Rabbit" Holt offered to commit suicide, sell his body to the University of Michigan for experimentation. Instead he was made janitor, later consented to live in a glass cage, undergo feeding experiments conducted by Michigan's Dr. Louis Harry Newburgh...