Word: nest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with orders for layers. He puts the eggs in special incubators that vastly improve on the maternal solicitude of real hens. A hen often forgets to turn her eggs (causing the membrane lining to adhere to the shell and killing the fetus), or in hot dry weather leaves the nest and lets them dry out. Durr's mechanical mother turns each egg every hour, and when a thermometer warns that the relative humidity is too low. shoots in a fine spray of water. Durr staggers the eggs, in each incubator, because from the 16th day until the 21st, when...
...Nest Control. In Indramayu, Indonesia, town officials announced a new price for marriage licenses: 25 rat tails...
Screwdriver and splicing knife hanging from his belt, the telephone man keeps history's happiest invention humming from coast to coast. He watches over 265 million miles of wire, waging war against storm, disaster and pesky animals that chew up or nest in his equipment. He hoists his lines over mountains with helicopters, shoots them across canyons with bow and arrow, strings them through dark conduits far beneath great cities. To every home and office, he gains ready entrance, exuding courtesy and helpfulness...
...direction of California and Compton College's President Paul Martin for the courage and ingenuity displayed in his attempt to use educational films and TV as one method of solving the current shortage of qualified college professors [Dec. 22]. In the face of the educational hornets' nest that has been stirred up by this undertaking, it might be well to examine the problem more closely...
...cold war's issues fit together like a child's toy nest of boxes. Berlin, at the center, sits inside the larger German question, which sits inside the European security question, which sits inside the container that might enfold them all-disarmament. For the last month U.S., British and Soviet officials have been struggling with the biggest container of all at the Geneva conference on suspending nuclear tests...