Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes were taught to scan the printed page, moving quickly over the lines and making fewer stops than had been their habit. The results gained by the "remedial reading class" were immensely significant despite the justly cautious attitude of the directors of the experiment, for not only did the Guinea Pigs increase their reading speed approximately fifty per cent, but half of their number showed definite improvement in their marks from November to February. In spite of this striking indication of the relation between reading ability and the mastery of courses, the University has conspicuously not leapt into action...
Died. Charles Rupert Stockard, 60, famed biologist, president of the board at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, longtime head of the anatomy department at Cornell University's Medical College; of heart disease; in Manhattan. After a 17-year experiment with guinea pigs, Dr. Stockard asserted that a moderate consumption of alcohol is good for the human race...
...combination of the parent drug with part of a fat. Last week at the Baltimore meeting of the American Chemical Society Dr. Moses Leverock Crossley, director of Calco Chemical Co. at Bound Brook, N. J., announced that the new drug had successfully checked the growth of tuberculosis in guinea pigs...
...Sultan; a guinea pig named Winnie-the-Pooh; two garter snakes, Becky Sharp and Thackeray; two four-and five-foot pilot black snakes, Pythagoras and Snookie; an adolescent alligator, John Lewis; Mrs. Hughes-Hallett's mother and two bubbling, healthy children, Son David (now at Cambridge) and Daughter Kathleen (an Olympic-team fencer...
...prone to use cause the same type of resentment. Town concludes that gown does not take its problems seriously enough; students make open sport of local government and the faculty is too inept in politics to prove it does not wish to experiment with the municipality as a guinea...