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...Marmosets, baboons, gibbons and probably most other monkeys have multiple births. So, rarely, do horses, cows, sheep, deer. Some species in which multiple births have never been recorded: whale, porpoise, zebra, buffalo. African antelope, giraffe, camel, llama, sea lion, walrus, hippopotamus, sloth, anteater, and the major varieties of elephant, rhinoceros and kangaroo. Bears ordinarily produce 2-3 young, striped hyenas 3-4, ferrets 6-10, hedgehogs 3-6, Australian dingo dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ape Twins | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...fingers of the Priest dip into the wine; why not provide him sterile gloves? Why not mask all the congregation who are dangerous in their coughing and sneezing? Why open the Church? Flies can be dangerous, and are seen in Church. Strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel? How many of the congregation drink from the common cups in soda-fountains, and drug stores- these often rinsed in dirty, greasy sinks. How many churchmen and women catch syphilis away from the Holy Table? Were I to go up to the Holy Table assured that I only was worthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 4, 1934 | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...from the Red Sea port of Hodeida that Ibn Saud's men captured last fortnight. One moved westward from the great central desert toward Sana. The third drove down from the border bandit land of Nejram on Sada key city to Sana. They came in armored cars, in camel corps and on horseback. And behind them able Ibn Saud solidified their gains by cutting the customs duties at Hodeida 50% last week. . Hard-pressed indeed was their prey, Yahya ibn Hamid-ed-Din, Imam Yemen scion of Mohammed's daughter Fatima' and her husband Ali the fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARABIA: Fall of Yemen (Cont'd) | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...earned a little leisure. All his life he had been far too busy to engender colorful stories or indulge in hobbies, but in The Hague he suddenly evinced a passionate interest for tulip bulbs. Day after day he puttered about his planting fields, fertilizing pistils with his little camel's hair brush until he finally produced a new tulip all his own. After a tour of duty as Ambassador to Moscow, Koki Hirota's big chance came last September. Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida had seen his country through the Jehol invasion. He was tired. 68, and getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Keeper of Peace | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...last B.A.A. marathon proved a lot. It proved that in the future a man may run as fast as he likes, according to how much fuel he wants to burn. Take Johny Kelly, for example, an ordinary plodder, but filled with a burning desire to win this inter-suberb camel-trek. He calls up Harvard University, Uni. 7600, and asks for the Fatigue Research Laboratory. He asks Professor Henderson if he can become one of "Henderson's Men" and is accepted by the great blood-chemists. Henderson gives him the dope for winning marathons, a dozen little glucose sugar pills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/3/1934 | See Source »

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