Word: pig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nebraska, a collection of pig bones has been found in windblown sand. Some ancestral pigs had sought protection. Here back in Miocene times were pigs living gregariously...
...they forced them to perform a burlesque of the goose step through the city's amusement centre. The troopers made Jewish cafe patrons scrub floors and wash windows, and escorted through the streets customers from Jewish stores who were forced to carry signs reading: "I am an Aryan pig. I bought from a Jewish shop." Meanwhile, the official Vienna Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter, after declaring that by 1942 no Jew would have the opportunity to earn a living in Vienna, warned: "Jews! Abandon all hope. Our net is so fine that you will not find a hole...
...Scientist Karl Ehrhardt of Germany published photographs of a female monkey holding a young guinea pig in a maternal manner. This foster mother had been injected with a crude extract from pituitary glands. In 1932 Dr. Oscar Riddle and his associates at the Carnegie Institution's station for experimental evolution on Long Island obtained in almost pure form the same pituitary substance which had made Ehrhardt's monkey act like a mother. Because it was a stimulant of milk secretion this substance was called prolactin...
TIME's account [April 4] of the execution of a small reddish-brown pig at San Quentin. Calif, was incorrect. The pig actually dropped unconscious, never to rise again, in twenty seconds and in all probability it was dead within a minute...
...cyanide eggs were dropped into a pan of sulfuric acid; at 10:39:30 the fumes reached the pig. It staggered to its feet nine times. At 10:40:05 it fell to the bottom of the cage. At 10:41:40 all reflex actions stopped, two minutes 20 seconds after the start of the execution...