Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August, he was confronted with a problem radically different from that facing his almost legendary predecessor, "Chief" Boston. While the Harlow system instituted the J. V. as a nearly independent team with a head coach and two aids, Valpey called for jayvees to act part of the time as guinea pigs for the varsity...
...Elvehjem did another series of experiments for Agene's makers, Wallace & Tiernan of Newark; on an Agenized diet, cats, rabbits, mink and dogs developed fits. Experimenters sometimes found the brain cells of Agenized dogs shrunken, misshapen or missing. A similar diet had no bad effects on 20 human guinea pigs. Nonetheless, Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, announced last winter (TIME, Jan. 12) that Agene may make the eater nervous...
Ever since the season's start, the Jayvees have been plagued by defects in their attack. Either it was fumbles, or pass interceptions, or poor timing. McCabe's task of ironing out difficulties has been made no easier by the guinea pig function of the Jayvees. Most of J.V. practice time is spent impersonating the varsity opponent of the following week...
South Pacific veterans will be pleased to learn that price spirals which started with the first landings on New Guinea have at last taken a header...
...Former R.A.F. Warrant Officer Edward Blacksell, McIndoe's closest associate in running the Guinea Pig Club, says that TIME'S statement is "only wrong in a technical sort of way. Although they didn't actually call Mac 'God,' many of them thought of him as such, or certainly as the next best thing...