Word: pigeoning
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While the members of the class in Sever 5 were engaged, yesterday morning in reading from Chaucer, a pigeon forced entrance to the room, and by dint of a terrifically clamorous cooing from the dark recesses of the ceiling, forced them to the extremities of distinct articulation in order to be understood...
Glands. A case of complete reversal of sex in a full-grown animal was described by Dr. Oscar Riddle, of the Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. A female pigeon was transformed into a male as a result of a tubercular condition affecting the spleen, liver and glands. While sex reversal has been frequently caused in the early egg stage, such changes in adult birds are very rare. It indicates that the hereditary basis of no bodily or mental characteristic may be considered as irrevocably fixed, and it is possible that if the study...
...acted as spokesman for the pilgrims. In 1921 the honor fell to Hamilton Holt; in 1922 to Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador to Turkey under the Wilson regime. This year Mr. Wilson's trusted Secretary of the Treasury, Carter Glass, sometimes spoken of among politicians- more familiarly than charitably-as " pigeon face," led the rally around his old leader...
...printed in French and intelligible to only two percent of those who use it; while that of the third class, being printed in English, is quite unintelligible to the foreign immigrants. Although the second class menu is not mentioned, it must be concocted of some fearful kind of pigeon English. At any rate the advantage of a proper equipment of French is easily apparent. One at once belongs to the very exclusive group of those who understand what they are ordering. Thus one avoids such an embarrasing faux pas as that of the man who, pointing to an item...
...climbing kangaroos, flying phalangers, bandicoots, two very rare musk kangaroos, wombats, Tasmanian devils, spotted dasyures and other exotic beasts. The Whitney South Sea Expedition, under Rollo H. Beck, has found specimens of a number of birds either unknown or long thought extinct, including Peale's petrel, the fruit pigeon of Rapa, red-tailed tropic bird, shearwater and others. Every island group in Polynesia has its own species of warbler, with amazing variability...