Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lowell after being turned down by his alma mater. Yale had been unprepared for his offer to finance subdivision, but Lowell was already strongly convinced overgrown Harvard had to be split up. Ten seconds after Harkness had offered his financial assistance, Harvard had for all practical purposes become the guinea pig for large American colleges...
...mingled but did not fraternize, about 300 guests jammed for warmth (evening temperature: 48°) into two satin-draped tents pitched on Marianne's lawn. They guzzled 200 bottles of pink champagne (price: $11 a fifth) and torrents of other beverages, ate their way through flocks of guinea hens and a whole salmon (length: I yd.), gaped at one buffet display featuring a woolly lamb surrounded by genuine lamb chops. The swan-song theme was carried out by a dozen huge swans, carved from ice, which graced the tables, plus flocks of smaller black-metal swans dangling from trellises...
Then begins a painstaking, month-long process of testing, with more tissue cultures and inoculations into live monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs and mice to make sure that the vaccine is safe to inject into humans. These tests are made simultaneously on each batch of vaccine by the manufacturer, by Dr. Salk's laboratories and by the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda...
...American efficiency was something else entirely. Said London's Daily Mail: "The Americans did things at Fawley which we must introduce into British industry." The British Institute of Management's report, said the Daily Mirror, is "a bedtime book for British bosses . . . It is worth a guinea a word...
ABORIGINAL "MODERN" brings the jungle into the living room. "In what is called 'advanced' design" fabrics must be "printed with abstract symbols appropriate only as tattoo markings on the belly of a New Guinea head-hunter...