Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose, about 60 or 70 acres of tillable land. He kept, when I was a boy, five or six cows, a yoke of oxen, ten or a dozen head of young cattle, including calves, two or three horses and sometimes 200 sheep, and of course hens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigs. As I was the only boy in our family, you can perhaps imagine how busy I could be. ... It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean out the stables; then I had to help feed the cows and cattle. . . . The hogs also...
...profound contempt for this uneasy little king, with his know-it-all air, and his face like a plum; what was more the king had touched him on a sensitive spot. All his life he was annoyed that people made him paint their faces and refused to give a guinea for his hayricks and his cottages. Portraiture was fashionable. Landscape was not. Well, one lived in the world; one painted portraits. Sir Joshua had done it; scuttling Romney did it; Thomas Lawrence got himself into the Royal Academy at 21 by doing it. Venuses and Adonises. Even the king managed...
...disease attacks every kind of vertebrate-fish, reptile, bird and animal. Domesticated animals acquire it-dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, hogs, cattle. They, like humans, may suffer variously from tuberculosis of the lungs (phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis), of the intestinal tract, lymphatic glands, serous membranes, bones, skin, brain, Fallopian tubes, uterus, spleen. But whether, except in the case of milk-yielding cows, they can transmit tuberculosis to humans is still a moot point in medicine...
...African empire carved and welded for her by Marshal Lyautey. Africa was a central theme at the meeting last week of the French Association for the Advancement of Science. Alfred Lacroix, the Association's president, described the part scientists must play in developing Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, Senegambia, Niger, Guinea. The Association voted to hold its 1927 meeting in Constantine, Algeria. Dr. Serge Voronoff, famed gland man, reported the latest progress of his gland-grafting experiments upon 3,000 Algerian sheep (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924). An extra sex gland grafted in young rams so increased their weight and hair-growing...
...Matthew W. Stirling has already accomplished much of the purpose of the Institution's expedition to explore and map the pygmy-inhabited heart of New Guinea by airplane...