Word: hens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a casual resemblance between the papers. The Review is neither so skillfully written nor so brightly edited as the Tribune, and typographically it still wears high-button shoes. The source of its journalistic power is that, like the Trib, it fusses over its inland empire like a hen on eggs-and covers the empire as efficiently...
...Harvest. In Denver, cops made the pinch on general principles when they spotted a car containing: 1) James Yohe, 2) Charles Crider, 3) two women, 4) a toy wagon, 5) a toy tractor, 6) a wooden horse, 7) a white rabbit, 8) a quart of whisky, 9) a red hen, 10) a garbage can, 11) a black hen, 12) a gamecock, 13) a deodorized skunk...
...University of Tennessee's Oak Ridge experiment station, hens fed with mildly radioactive mash are laying radioactive eggs. This tracer technique, the university said last week, has helped its poultry scientists to follow the intimate workings of the hen's egg-making machinery. By skilled use of Geiger counters, they can follow the "hot" feed as it circulates inside the hen. They can measure it accurately as it forms into...
...laid egg, say the scientists, contains material derived from feed that the hen ate as long as 40 days before. It takes eight to ten days to form a complete egg. Most of this time (about seven days) is spent in the making of the yolk. The shell is a quickly built container. Nearly 75% of the mineral in it comes from feed that the hen ate the previous...
...Take four mixing-spoonfuls of Barbados molasses; two hen's eggs, or one loon's egg; one pint of creamy milk, or one pint of new-fallen snow which also has a rising virtue, and one pint of water. Beat this together...