Word: hinde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing will happen to the mouse. But, wrote Dr. Brodie in Science last week, if the child is susceptible to infantile paralysis, after two days "the clinical picture in the mouse is quite acute. It begins with irritability, jumpiness, ruffled hair and goes on to ataxia [dragging] of the hind legs, humped back, convulsions, circular movements, twisting of the head and sometimes ptosis [drooping] of the eyelids. The animals usually die within a few hours after the onset of the symptoms...
...text the anti-Administration outpourings of Rev. Charles Coughlin and Senator Long, Hugh Johnson cried: "You can laugh at Father Coughlin-you can snort at Huey Long-but this country was never under a greater menace. ... It is somebody time for somebody to get up on his hind legs and howl !" Up on his hind legs was precisely where General Johnson got and howl he did at the radio pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower: "While I do not for a moment compare Father Coughlin with Talleyrand, it is no exaggeration to say that, through...
...unicorn of fable was a fierce, creature with the head and body of a horse, the hind legs of an antelope, the tail of a lion or horse, a long sharp horn growing from its forehead. In the Authorized Version of the Old Testament unicorns are mentioned four times; in the Revised Version the Hebrew word, R'ēm, is translated "wild ox." During the Middle Ages the belief was prevalent that the savage unicorn was soothed by the sight of a virgin, would approach softly and lay his head in a true virgin's lap. Though this...
...uncommon for the female rat to exhibit disapproval of a male rat introduced into her premises. Her attitude towards the male, at such times, is merely defensive?if he approaches her, she rises on her hind legs and utters cries of distress, repelling him with her forepaws...
...seem to have demanded stronger measures from a female rat recently observed. At the same time as her litter was removed, a male was placed in her cage. Immediately she drove him to a corner in the forefront of the cage, where he was obliged to stand on his hind legs and to remain so standing, while she excitedly brought pieces of hay, and, literally, walled him in. The hay was patted in place, to the full height of the cage, so that she might not see him. She herself was totally without bedding ultimately. The state of siege lasted...