Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sunk in the plateau that surrounds the Sterren Mountains, snow-capped backbone of Netherlands New Guinea, is a triangular-shaped, 40-acre swamp with no visible outlet. On hands and knees, Charles Miller gazed down into its reeds. A quarter mile away something moved. Charles Miller's blood froze. Lashing across the swamp was a dinosaur. It was 35 feet long, a yellowish color, with scales laid on like armor plate, a bony-flanged head, and snappin-turtle beak. Half blinded by cold sweat, Charles Miller pressed the release on his camera.* The dinosaur reared up on its hind...
...Garden sit out this Season. Some reasons: some backers objected to German and Italian singers, Wagnerian operas; others were alarmed about wars and rumors of wars. To the rescue of Covent Garden leaped gruff, goateed Sir Thomas Beecham, who has spent uncounted sums from his pill income ("Worth a Guinea a Box") to give England good music, like...
Without the use of guinea pigs, or without any resort to actuarial tables, my friend figured through a simple calculation of the number of drinks that he has had, that, according to the estimates of Dr. Arthur Hunter (that every drink costs the moderate drinker 25 minutes of life), there has been a grave error in that his birth should not have been recorded before Jan. 19, 1954. In other words, he is at the present time minus 14 years and 7 months old, and steadily going backward...
...others on local relief in Rochester, Miss McFiggins last week received her semimonthly check from the city welfare department. She then did something that Reliefers had never done before. She bought a booklet of orange and blue stamps issued by the U. S. Government, thus became the first feminine guinea pig in an experiment designed by the Department of Agriculture to relieve the glut of surplus farm produce (TIME, March...
Undoubtedly the Study's material will be invaluable to the staff of the Hygiene Department. But it must serve a broader purpose; it must be useful to the University as a whole. The problems faced by the 70 guinea pigs--problems of housing, of curriculum, of study habits--are representative of the entire student body. Nor are these the troubles of cantankerous "problem children," but rather of boys who are meeting their obligations with reasonable success. If the University recognizes the validity of the Study material, if it studies the every-day problems of every-day individuals...