Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million years has a normal guinea pig had five toes on each foot. It has had four toes on each front paw, three toes on each hind paw, a total of fourteen...
...this decade, however, guinea pigs acquired a great & good friend?Professor Sewall Wright of the University of Chicago, who looks after & at 8,000 of them. They support an evolutionary hypothesis which Professor Wright has long maintained, to the effect that inbreeding in freaks generates freaks. Eventually descendant freaks may be numerous enough to be considered a normal race. To gain evidence for this thought Professor Wright has inbred his guinea pigs for 30 generations...
...Hinkemann (Maurice Schwartz). Before he marched off to fight for the Fatherland, Egon was a strapping fellow with a beautiful wife (Helen MacKellar). He returns from the fray an emasculated wreck, "no man at all." To make a living he astonishes side show crowds by biting the heads off guinea pigs. "They want blood!" says his manager. They...
...jingling of the guinea helps to cloak apostasy...
...colporteurs. Distribution was 287,000 less than the previous year; contributions dropped ?33,047. Total number of languages and dialects in which the Bible is published was raised to 644 by the addition of German Romany (Gypsy), Australian Worrora, and twelve dialects of Africa, India and New Guinea...