Word: minke
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Without his expensive extras, man is a bare-skinned tropical animal. Unlike the mink, he has no fur coat of his own; unlike the robin, he cannot fly south under his own power. If he insists on living in cold countries, he must create small areas of artificial tropics and stay in them most of the winter. He calls these refuges "buildings," and he is forever trying to make them more comfortable...
...Ascot, or playing poker with stagehands. She can quote readily, and at impressive length, from the Bible, Shakespeare, and a lavatory wall. Onstage she is gowned by famous designers (she was once called the "world's only volcano dressed by Mainbocher"). Offstage, she prefers slacks and a mink coat. Hollywood didn't know what to make of her, but London adored her for eight wild years...
...University of Wisconsin's Conrad A. Elvehjem did another series of experiments for Agene's makers, Wallace & Tiernan of Newark; on an Agenized diet, cats, rabbits, mink and dogs developed fits. Experimenters sometimes found the brain cells of Agenized dogs shrunken, misshapen or missing. A similar diet had no bad effects on 20 human guinea pigs. Nonetheless, Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, announced last winter (TIME, Jan. 12) that Agene may make the eater nervous...
...yerself a mess of mink...
...Passed a bill for payment of $2,079 to a mink rancher near Roy, Wash., because low-flying military aircraft from Gray Field so upset mother minks that they destroyed their young...