Word: lorenz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roosters. A new way to produce fatter, tastier cockerels, to make even tough old roosters succulent, had been discovered by Biochemist Frederick W. Lorenz of the University of California. His method: the injection of a synthetic sex hormone. Lorenz had begun by wondering why a hen grows fat when it starts laying eggs. He proved it was because the female sex hormone, estrogen, increases the amount of fat in the blood. Lorenz then hit on the idea of giving estrogen (available in a cheap, synthetic form called diethylstilbestrol) to fatten up male fowl...
...musical laid in the Indian territory just after the turn of the century, it is thoroughly refreshing without being oppressively rustic. It boasts no musicomedy names and nothing much in the way of a book. But Composer Rodgers (working for the first time in his Broadway career without Lyricist Lorenz Hart) has turned out one of his most attractive scores, and Choreographer Agnes de Mille (the ballet Rodeo) has created some delightful dances. Even run-of-de-Mille dances have more style and imaginativeness than most Broadway routines, while the best are almost in a different world...
...warm romantic melody in such songs as Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' and People Will Say, gay lilt in The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, humor in Pore Jud and I Cain't Say No, a roof-buster of an anthem in Oklahoma! If, compared to Lorenz Hart's at their best, Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics lack polish, so after all did frontier Oklahoma...
...Where Were We? In Gravelbourg, Sask., seven days after a child was born to Peter Lorenz Hornung and Mary Anne Dash Hornung, a child was born at the same hospital to Lorenz Peter Hornung and Mary Anne Rach Hornung...
...Philip B. Lorenz (TIME Letters, Dec. 7), in commenting on General McNair's words . . . advances a disturbing philosophy, when he says: "In the biological world we find the first necessity is to develop an unalterable hate for guinea pigs, rabbits, and other animals which it is our business to kill...