Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, by a repeated complicated procedure called "isoelectric precipitation," the Riddle laboratory crew obtained a pituitary substance which did not noticeably affect the thyroid or the sex glands, but which had a marked effect on the mammary glands. It started milk production not only in normal female guinea pigs but also in spayed females and males. In pigeons it thickened the crop sac, which provides a liquid ("pigeon milk") with which pigeons feed their young. Riddle called this new hormone prolactin...
Henry Smith is so average that J. B. Harcourt (Adolphe Menjou) and his assistant, Brady (Jack Oakie), promoters of the contest, decide to make him a sort of industrial guinea pig to serve as an inexpensive substitute for the Gallup Polls and FORTUNE Surveys. The system works to everyone's advantage except Henry's until he is called upon to decide when and why the average U. S. citizen would go to war. At this point Thanks for Everything explodes into a climax which combines straight slapstick with vigorous satire on such U. S. preoccupations as the advertising...
...human heads have been secured from the village of Tambunum in New Guinea on the upper Sepik River, where white men have seldom been and which is one of the few regions in the world where head-hunting still flourishes. These heads once belonged to enemy tribesmen and were set up in the village "men's house," a ceremonial building for men only, to drive away evil spirits...
Everybody knows that Washington Street is Broadway's guinea pig, thus it is superfluous to say that Dwight Wiman's "Great Lady" ran twenty-seven minutes overtime last night, that the first two numbers get the show off to a very slow start, that in several of the chorus numbers the singing is off cue and inaudible, or, that the show "has the makings of" this or that...
...guinea pigs" in Harvard are Dr. Bock's normal boys; in the Psychological Clinic at 64 Plympton Street a group of 26 children from four to six years old are having their personalities analyzed and their complexes examined...