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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilmington, N. C. last August, Mrs. Annie Mae Gannon's cat littered in her boarding house. First came one normal, one tailless and one bobtailed kitten. Twelve hours later Mrs. Gannon's cat bore what looked like a splotched, botched Boston bull pup. Colored black, yellow and white, it had long, sharply pointed ears, short whiskers, stub tail, short doggish hair. Unlike cat or dog it was born with eyes open. And it could crawl at once. As it grew up it made noises like a cat, sniffed and gnawed bones like a dog. It rested with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Cat-Dog | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...difficulty in London's noisy West End. Commented the professor: "Collecting birds at night in the centre of London was more easily said than done." In all cases the sex organs of those abnormally disturbed birds were larger and more fit for propagation than the sex organs of normal birds. The chain of physiological events which causes such sex stimulation is not altogether clear. In the case of light, it seems "that light falling upon the eye . . . stimulates the pituitary which in turn activates the gonads." Besides influencing birds, light "has also been shown to be effective in certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tumult & Sex | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...supposed to be propaganda for rugged communism frighten you away either. The propaganda is there all right, if you want to look for it, but it doesn't jump out at you, and I am afraid that the objects of Auden's satire haven't enough connection with normal American life to make it very effective...

Author: By Eng. Dept. and Charles I. Weir, S | Title: Tbe Crimson Playgoer | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

...earns his living after leaving college will have to concentrate under many more unfavorable circumstances than a painting job which, with normal expectancy, would not occur in his room more than once during four year's residence at the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

...brake on inflation by collecting more than it spends. Now inflation is under way and the President, though talking economy, is still waiting for revenue to catch up to spending. On the evidence that expected 1938 revenues of $6,906,000,000 (an alltime high, 60% above pre-Depression normal) were yet expected to leave the Government with its eighth successive annual deficit, it appeared that Franklin Roosevelt had abandoned the Keynes theory by forgetting its second half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Budget Backtalk | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

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