Word: hamster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rising popularity of elegant casual costumes. Many top fashion houses are showing jacket-and-trouser sets to be worn to cheer the tired executive after a hard day at the office. Variations range from Fredrica Furs' $1,195 nutria car coat with pants of hamster fur (retail price of pants: $195) to Designer Lisa Fonssagrive's Edwardian smoking jacket and pants (see cut) of muted-green velveteen piped in mauve (retail price: $125). Another costume from the same designer, onetime top U.S. fashion model (TIME, Sept. 19, 1949): a woolen evening wrap shaped like a cocoon, with...
...Hugh O'Neil, the great Earl of Tyrone, ends in an explanation of Elizabethan expansion as the result of a price squeeze on the gentlemen of England. There Totem and Taboo is tabooed, with anthropological reasons. Here some pellet-counters thrash out the merits of the rat and the hamster as laboratory animals. There the probable next moves of the Rubber Workers Union are mapped...
Last week five University of Maryland researchers reported that they had broken through the mucosal barrier and succeeded in giving colds to a common, cheap and docile laboratory animal: the suckling hamster. The researchers took nasal washings from colleagues with fresh colds, dropped them into the noses of six-day-old hamsters. Two-thirds of the infant animals got human-type colds. Cold researchers rejoiced, hoped now to make faster progress against humanity's stubborn medical nuisance by giving hundreds of hamsters runny noses...
Lowell parietal rules have been waived for a Jolly Up from seven to ten p.m. on Sunday, March 18. Invitations were sent to approximately fifth Radcliffe girls by the "Lowell House Drinking and Gaming Society" in conjunction with the Hamster Breeders' Association of Upper E Entry...
Activities planned for the evening include drinking and "hamster watching," spokesmen said last night. In response to queries by several Radcliffe mothers, the hosts announced that the party will be fully chaperoned by John P. Elder, assistant professor of Greek and Latin, and Dean Small. The number of gentlemen who will attend is "the secret of the Jolly Up Committee...