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...when the Hasty Pudding Club finally moved over from Hollis. Stoughton's specter quickened with this great honor and in 1852 sent forth Horatio Alger to conquer the world. Soon Phillips Brooks was inspired to inscribe his initials on a fireplace. When another student painted an owl, a frog, a gull, and a turtle on the doors of room 25, the college carpenter threatened to remove the exhibit and fine the artist, but President Sparks intervened, proving himself a patron of the arts. The Stoughton renaissance culminated in a final burst of glory on the evening of December...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Haunted House | 4/21/1955 | See Source »

Hawkins dolphin kick didn't work well in the time trials, producing only a 2:35 clocking and forcing him to rely solely on his own slide kick and the frog kick in the finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hawkins Takes 2nd In NAAU Butterfly | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Hawkins did a 2:13.3 in the same race at the Eastern's last Saturday, but this weekend his dolphin kick wasn't working so well, and he was forced to revert to the standard frog...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ohio State Captures NCAA Swim Championship Over Michigan, Yale | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Belcher: Performer with a frog in his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Aidma to Zilch | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Most laboratory tests for pregnancy work on the same principle: detection of a key hormone, chorionic gonadotrophin, found in the urine of a pregnant woman. A concentrate of a urine specimen is injected into a test animal (frog, rabbit, mouse); if present, the hormone will cause a recognizable reaction in the sex glands. If there is no reaction, the patient is presumed not pregnant. But no method is foolproof-frogs injected only with distilled water have developed reactions. Some tests (e.g., the Friedman test using rabbits, the Aschheim-Zondek test with mice) are highly accurate, but require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Pregnancy Test | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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