Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they receive a hypodermic injection of urine from a pregnant woman they invariably produce a few eggs. Non-gravid or male urine fails to affect them. "Therefore," smiled Dr. Matsner, "at 16? apiece they are the cheapest, most reliable indicator of pregnancy which we have- cheaper than rabbits or guinea pigs, which must be killed before they reveal the uncertain woman's condition: more reliable than bitterlings, who project their ovipositors in the presence of any of several hormones" (TIME...
...owes me $10,000, at least, for acting as a guinea pig for her column for the past 15 years. First I got the brunt of her theories on how to raise children; next, I was the wild younger generation; then I was a youth caught in the clutches of a depression; then I was a young married man, and now that I'm a father I suppose the cycle will start all over again...
...Streltsov had built chambers in which he tested the ability of various animals to live at low pressures, translatable into equivalent heights above sea level. Best performers were guinea pigs and turtles, which got along at the equivalent of 13,000 metres (about 43,000 ft.). Dogs and cats could not hang on long above 12,000 metres, carrier pigeons collapsed at 7,000. Newborn rats and mice, however, which were given no chance to get used to air of normal pressure, survived amazingly in air of .002 of sea level pressure, which corresponds to an altitude of 30 miles...
...Earhart considered all this too much bother, no trailing antenna was taken along. Finally, the Itasca's, commander would have had a better idea where to look if the plane had radioed its position at regular intervals. But not one position report was received after the plane left New Guinea. In fact only seven position reports are known to have been radioed by the flyers during their entire trip...
...months ago. With her Lockheed Electro, patched up, she took off in the opposite direction June 1 with Fred Noonan, onetime ace navigator for Pan American Airways,* flew leisurely to South America, Africa, India, Australia with a minimum of newspaper or public interest. July 1 they left Lae, New Guinea for the "worst section"-the 2,550 miles of open ocean to tiny Rowland Island, where no plane had ever been. With typical stunt flyer's negligence, Miss Earhart did not bother to reveal her position along the way. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca at Howland heard from...