Word: litters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to a report which reached the U. S. last week, M. Letard has mated each of the parents to other cats but from such unions has never obtained a naked kitten. A naked kitten, after growing up and being mated to a normal cat, has uniformly normal litters. But when two of the hairless cats were mated to each other, they had an entirely hairless litter. The hairlessness was thus seen to be a recessive Mendelian character. By mating one hairless animal with another, Dr. Letard has obtained a true-breeding strain. Up to last week no buyers...
...typical and horrifying case history is that of a young Chinese girl brought in a basket litter on January 26 to the Mission hospital in Nanking. She said that her husband, a Chinese policeman, was seized by one of the Japanese execution squads on the same day that she was taken by Japanese soldiers from a hut in the Safety Zone to the South City. She was kept there for 38 days, she said, and attacked by Japanese soldiers from five to ten times each day. Upon examination by the Mission hospital, she was found to have contracted all three...
Died. Rachel Peixotto Hays Sulzberger, 77, mother of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times; widow of the late Philanthropist Cyrus L. Sulzberger; herself an active social worker (United Neighborhood Houses, New York parks Anti-Litter Committee, Aguilar Library Association); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Albie Booth's last minutes drop kick which smashed the undefeated record of Barry Wood's team in 1931. Oh yes, a Bulldog pelt is always a welcome sight in the Crimson trophy room, but one was never more eagerly awaited than that belonging to this year's litter of "Ducky" Pond's invincible blue pups...
...Wilmington, N. C. last August, Mrs. Annie Mae Gannon's cat littered in her boarding house. First came one normal, one tailless and one bobtailed kitten. Twelve hours later Mrs. Gannon's cat bore what looked like a splotched, botched Boston bull pup. Colored black, yellow and white, it had long, sharply pointed ears, short whiskers, stub tail, short doggish hair. Unlike cat or dog it was born with eyes open. And it could crawl at once. As it grew up it made noises like a cat, sniffed and gnawed bones like a dog. It rested with...