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...Freshman B's topped Lincoln Inn, 4-1, and number one man Hen Hockschor, Cal Place, Tony Ostheimer, and Doug Gardner each registerd wins. The only match the Inn picked up was at number three, with Jim Hammond the loser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Teams Win Squash Matches | 1/7/1954 | See Source »

...hen Notre Dame's football players trudged into their locker room after a bruising victory over Pittsburgh fortnight ago, they were confronted with a broad new sign. Its message: "Beat Tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The No. I Team | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...hen is not a bird, nor a woman a human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COLD WAR: Marriage in Moscow | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

Crowning Glory. From the newspapers, debate spread to scientists. M.P.s and farmers. The University College of South Wales proved to its own satisfaction that the death rate among battery birds is less than half that of birds on the open range. "Laying eggs is a hen's crowning glory," clucked the Farmers' Union. "The lives of [battery hens] are no more unnatural than the lives of a man and his dog in a London flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Hen & the Egg | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...week's end the Ministry of Agriculture flatly refused to abolish the battery system. It would mean the loss of 150 million eggs a year, said the ministry, and Britain cannot afford that. "In a battery, a hen is protected from the things it dislikes most," said the official announcement. "They are: heavy rain, excessive wind, excessive cold or heat, bullying and cannibalism. Whether the bird itself has views, we do not know. But . . . too many people think of hens in human terms. They say the birds can't lie down [in the batteries]. A hen doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Hen & the Egg | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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