Word: mongrelizing
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...mechanical means, did better (TIME, April 30 et seq.). Slowly Dog No. 3 learned to crawl, sit up on its haunches, eat, bark, snap flies. Last week it was eating 12 oz. of meat per day. But it could not stand alone, did not behave like the normal mongrel terrier it had once been. Lean, jet-haired Dr. Robert E. Cornish concluded that a taste of death had irreparably injured its brain...
...Cornish decided to try nursing yet another dog up the steep ascent from death. In his Berkeley, Calif, laboratory last fortnight the sallow young experimenter, with all the care and skill that experience had taught him, asphyxiated a fourth mongrel, revived it a half-hour after breathing had stopped, five minutes after its heart was stilled. Last week Dog No. 4 was rolling in delirium. But its blood pressure was rising, its pulse was nearly normal, and it was swallowing liquid food. Dr. Cornish reported that Dog No. 4's first week was vastly more encouraging than...
...pistol cracked. Up went the wire around the turtles in the ring's centre. The Dog House's Hot Dog (by Experiment, out of Mongrel) pulled in its neck and went to sleep. The Medical Clinic's Gluteus Maximus (by Cracked Pot, out of Whack) plunged madly toward the finish line, saw a bug, lost interest. Neck up and bobbing. Maple Leaf I (Buy British, out of God's Country) plugged steadily toward the 38-ft. circle's rim. A breeze whipped the Union Jack stuck on its back as it stepped across the line...
...bony white mongrel was no longer crawling on his mat. He was walking, slowly, with stiff, dragging hind legs and vacant eyes. He ate regularly but without enthusiasm. Dr. Cornish realized that part of the dog's brain was still dead, might remain so for months or years of apathetic existence...
...twelfth day the skinny white mongrel rolled over, struggled to its front feet, barked a dismal bark. In a moment it crumpled up, but young Dr. Robert E. Cornish was delighted. Two other stray terriers which he had killed and revived in his University of California laboratory had died again for good and all within a few hours (TIME, March 26). But after being quite dead-heart stopped, breath stopped, eyes glazed-for four minutes on Friday, April 13, Dog No. 3 had been brought back to live day after day. This apparent miracle had been worked by means...