Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular, but it riles me to think that you consider these men-and other men of long-wealthy families-superior to me by birth. . . . The human race hasn't been worked on by professional breeders-yet. It's different with hogs, and guinea pigs. You can mate animals experimentally, and by doing a good job of matchmaking for many, many generations you can arrive at a "wellborn" hog and call it a Poland-China, or what not. But that's never been done with people, so why pretend it has? If a family can name its pappies...
...superior in spirit and technique to other Negro art. Proudly last week in Manhattan the distinguished Knoedler Galleries put on display 31 objects which constituted the most important collection of Benin art ever exhibited in the U. S. Follow the Equator westward across Africa to its crotch where the Guinea coast joins the coast of the Cameroons. Just in that corner stood until the end of the 19th Century the ancient Kingdom of Benin. In 1486, six years before Columbus sailed to the west, Portuguese traders searching for pepper first entered the sacred city of Benin. There they found palaces...
Rats, cats, chickens, squirrels, white mice, guinea pigs, and monkeys have had regular "behavior tests" for the last five years on the top floor of Boylston Hall. This year the Department of Psychology has removed its overflow menagerie to the new Biological Laboratories...
White mice and guinea pigs were inclined to be too sickly for successful experimentation. Weeks of work may be wasted by the death of a half-educated animal in the midst of learning the intricacies of maxe-work...
...worth in gold, while the guilder is still at full, sane value. Should Dutchmen Dance? Cold figures reveal that in 1928 England supplied 29% of all textiles bought by Queen Wilhelmina's dusky Indonesian subjects in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Soemba, Bali, Flores, Timor, Banka, Billiton, New Guinea, Madura, Lombok, the Riouw Lingga and Molukken Islands, with Japan and The Netherlands tied for second place at 26%. Since then Japan has seized the lion's share of 76%, while England and The Netherlands have been reduced to a mere 7% each. Lumping all Indonesia's imports together...