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According to Webster's International, a biddy is (1) a hen or chicken, (2) an Irish serving girl. Evidently in the name of bonhommic the CRIMSON is asked to made a distinction here...
After being revived with bread crumbs and a glass of water, the hen spent the whole day in the office and then left in the evening with Mr. Hardy. Mr. Hardy has recently moved to Randolph where he already has a flock of chickens. This newest addition, he says, is an excellent specimen of a Plymouth Rock...
Some light on the failure with chickens was cast by Dr. William Ewart Gye, director of Britain's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, who found that even in the blood of chickens with growing cancers there may be antibodies in amounts detectable by chemical means. "A hen may carry a tumor," he wrote, "and have at the same time more than enough of the immune body in its circulating fluids to neutralize the whole of the virus in its tumor, and the tumor nevertheless continues to grow." The reason appeared to be that the cancer virus takes refuge inside...
...most widely exhibited photographs are, "Cook and Hen, Merlin," by Hugh G. Wagstaff, which received awards in Bolton and Manchester, England; and "Female Hen Harrier," by Niall Rankin, which shows a bird found only in Great Britain, in the Orkney Islands, and the outer Hebrides...
...have been making additions to the valuable Manchu collection," revealed C. L. Hen, who is acting librarian during the acsence of Dr. A. Kaiming Chiu. He also pointed out that the unique ornaments on top of the library shelves were newly acquired from Tibetan monasteries where they formerly had great religious significance...