Word: milks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands are hanging down weakly, their eyes are dim. . . . Only their jaws are moving, submissively, evenly, without joy or animation. . . . What are they trying to find in this miserable, degrading chewing? . . . When an infant, exhausted from hunger and crying, is pathetically moving its dull eyes, and there is no milk in the mother's breasts or in the bottle, the mother pushes a rubber nipple into the child's mouth- and the child sucks it desperately. . . . F'or a while it deceives itself by the movement of its own lips...
...pulse falls below 35 beats a minute (normal: 70) or if he develops an epileptic convulsion, he may die. However, only five of the several hundred schizophrenics treated so far have died. The others survived because Drs. Sakel, Wortis and colleagues were cautious enough to have sugared water or milk handy to give to their comatose patients the instant danger appeared...
...domesticated animal, respond instinctively to human guidance and are good at the more mechanical forms of learning, but frequently behave in ways which do not redound to their own benefit. "Cows," she continued, "catch on to things quicker, remember better. And strangely enough the cows that give the most milk are the smartest of all cows. But polo ponies make the same mistakes that draft horses do. And sheep, despite their timidity, can be taught tricks, such as taking a handkerchief out of your pocket, rolling a barrel, and shaking hands, just as easily as a horse...
Until last week Mrs.Millicent Hearst's chief medical philanthropies had been her Free Milk Fund for Babies Inc., which she finances by means of prize fights, tennis tournaments and indoor rodeos; an annual Christmas morning cinema for crippled Manhattan children, which she failed to hold last week; and the New York Infirmary for Women & Children, to which she has long contributed handsomely...
...first giant panda ever captured alive, safely transported 10,000 mi. from a hollow tree in China's chilly Szechwan Province (TIME, Dec. 7). Opening the hotel windows wide, Mrs. Harkness called for boiling water, proceeded to warm the small creature's nursing bottle of powdered milk, syrup and cod liver...