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...Nobody knows why some muscles show miscroscopic changes, perhaps resulting from aging, while others do not. "You can't tell a spring chicken from an old fowl by examination of muscle tissue." A better way is to cook the bird and carve...
...only does the R.O.T.C. get discipline from the regular officers but also from the non-comms, the sergeants and the corporals. The cadets were in an anomalous position, neither officer nor enlisted men, fish nor fowl, and even the privates, feeling that it was their last and only opportunity to lord it over the future officers, bossed them around...
...steep-roofed, three-story house, with the front door opening on the street, an arched carriage entrance at the side. Over the door was a freshly painted sign: "Eggs, venison and fowl, Proprietor Elli Wagner." In the courtyard behind the house still stood the decaying shop, with moldering yellow bricks and sturdy, hand-hewn beams, where Grandfather Willkie, and his father before him, kept their coppersmithy...
...dished up in the United Kingdom last week, was the same as the traditional Christmas (or plum) pudding except that carrots were much used where the receipt called for certain fruit. There was no Blitzmas shortage of nourishing food but instead of "Christmas goose," turkey or other high-priced fowl* most people, including the armed forces, chomped cheap Empire beef or mutton on Dec. 25. Officers of about the rank of colonel, if at all prosperous themselves, generally treated their men to free beer...
...failed to protect her doves from an unknown bird fancier, who took pot shots at the doves with a BB gun while they were protecting strategic points. At last, she said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild of Variety Artists to settle her troubles, was still turning up at the Casino, ready to strut her pigeons if the Casino would pay her salary and the poachers would be kinder to her stock...