Word: likes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starlings have long memories, sometimes tossing off the calls of summer birds in the dead of winter. Moreover, like humans, they occasionally go crazy over a popular bird tune number, most of the birds in a murmuration repeating it over & over until at last they get tired of it and discard it. Botanist Harry Ardell Allard of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has devotedly studied the mimicry of starlings, coaxing them to perform by placing nesting boxes outside his window. In Science last week he reported a prodigy. One starling, having imitated the long, low, monotonous call...
Mused the Baltimore Sun, editorially: "Whether we like it or not, we shall soon have the opportunity, so passionately besought by the late Bobby Burns, of seeing ourselves as others see us, with the additional blessing of seeing ourselves at the same time, and in the same way as others see us. The philosophical connotations are terrific...
Remarkable is Concrete Man Turner, who looks more like a Groton headmaster than a building contractor, for his achievement in keeping his staff together in spite of the vicissitudes of the volatile U. S. construction industry. Including Vice President (for Philadelphia) H. C. Turner Jr., who has only ten years' worth of service stripes, 13 executives (average age: 52) of this 37-year-old company average 26½ years with the company. Down, the line, 25 superintendents average 17 years, 70 foremen 19 years. No small achievement is this in an industry which must count on starving three years...
...netted $75,000 in one year on a $100,000 investment. Safeway Stores' cost of delivering milk (including pasteurization, wages, depreciation, etc.) from farm to store customer through its 18-town Pacific Coast chain came to 3? a quart. Safeway complains that in many communities it would like to sell milk several cents cheaper than the law allows...
...sometimes produced neuralgia, hemorrhages and double vision. . . . [In the U. S.] local treatments such as belladonna plasters over the kidneys and ice bags over the vertebrae were enthusiastically recommended. A worthy Ph.D. pleaded for selfdiscipline, fervently exhorting his hearers not to get the sneezing habit-which was very much like bidding a patient with a raging fever to keep cool. . . . Treatment ranged from what was called respiratory gymnastics to such Spartan measures as cauterization of the prostate gland in males and bone-breaking without discrimination...