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...Gynecology, the variations in losses among different kinds of newborns are of no significance compared to the fact that all babies lose weight immediately after birth. He has no hopes of eliminating all the loss because the human baby "is unprepared for its individualized existence in comparison with other mammals, occupying a place somewhere between the domestic mammal and the wild marsupial." If women gestated like most animals, babies would be four times as big at birth as they are, reasons Dr. Kugelmass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Food for Newborns | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

When last week's puzzlers had finished grappling with the 20th question ("Is a porpoise a fish or a mammal?") and were about to turn to page 55 for the answers, they were arrested by still another question. It read: "What is the Priceless Ingredient of every product? (See page 55 for the answer)." In an instant the puzzlers saw that the 21st question was part of a half-page advertisement for Squibb Aspirin. On page 55 they learned not only that a porpoise is a mammal, but that "The Priceless Ingredient of Every Product is the Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Advt. of the Week | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...relabeling of the Museum which is now under way, has been completed in the Mammal Room, and the system of family and genera labeling has been done. With this system the family variances can be more visibly treated. In order to show geographical distribution maps have been included in many of the cases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ZOOLOGY EXHIBITS AT MUSEUM IN PROCESS OF FULL REORGANIZATION | 5/3/1932 | See Source »

...Biology) "Suppose you found a fossilized jawbone of a vertebrate. What characteristics would you look for to determine whether or not it belonged to a mammal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago Party | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...good odor, one can smell her from far away; it is for this reason that there is fresh air out in the country. The mister cow is called a beef; he is not a mammal. The cow does not eat much, but what she eats, she eats it twice, that is why she has always enough. When she is hungry she chews a cud and when she does not say anything, that is that her stomach is full of food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Opinion | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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