Word: opossum
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...slump is not only in high-priced furs. In the Louisiana bayou country, where trappers sold $11 million worth of muskrat, raccoon, opossum and other cheap furs last year, there were few buyers as the 1948 trapping season opened. Fur dealers were still loaded up with last year's skins...
...with Nijinsky, Diaghilev and his friend Jean Cocteau, and drove through the Bois de Boulogne. Cocteau remembers: "We were silent; the night was cool and clear. The odor of the acacias told us we had reached the first trees. Coming to the lakes, Diaghilev, bundled up in opossum, began mumbling in Russian . . . tears running down [his] cheeks...
...Prokosch doubtless meant to write "opossum," doubtless did not think...
...years ago Philadelphia's Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology managed to raise a few opossums in captivity. This year 285 young were born on its farm. From his study of these. Edward McCrady Jr. last week published a monograph on The Embryology of the Opossum, which brought to an end one controversy, may well start a few more...
Long accepted by embryologists has been a theory that the marsupial mother tucks her newborn into the pouch with her lips. When, at various times, scientists reported cases of kangaroo and opossum babies crawling up their mothers' inclined bodies into the incubating pouches by themselves, most of their colleagues raised an eyebrow. The fetuses, they said, were too immature for such mountaineering...