Word: featherless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Crile, 75, famed, far-ranging surgeon and biological researcher, and his associates at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation are interested in comparing the major energy-controlling organs-brain, heart, thyroid and adrenal glands-of various energetic animals. They have studied specimens of 3,700 species, including the featherless biped, Homo sapiens. On one of their arctic expeditions they caught six white whales, one of which weighed almost exactly the same as Equipoise .when he died. The Whitney stables politely allowed them to take the organs they wanted from the great horse's carcass. Last week Dr. Crile...
...light; there was a tale of a man who fell in a well while looking at the stars; and once upon a time there was a philosopher who plucked the feathers from a rooster and sent it to a teacher who had defined man as a featherless biped. And then there were lines which as a young lad the Vagabond was made to learn...