Word: pigeonly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About five years ago, Dr. Palmer read about some British scientists who discovered that pigeons deprived of vitamin B I developed the symptoms of violent headaches, suffered severe pain on exposure to strong light, loud noise. The pigeon disease seemed so similar to human migraine that Dr. Palmer had a hunch his own headaches were caused by lack of B 1 . The vitamin deficiency, he believed, upset body metabolism, produced a poisoning of body tissues. Migraine, Dr. Palmer concluded, is only a symptom of this toxemia...
...foundling in question is presumably a genus Ectopistes migratorius, colloquially known as a passenger pigeon, although University experts called into conference late yesterday were not agreed as to its exact status...
Richard A. Harlow, curator of Oology, and incidentally coach of the football team, was undisposed to gamble his professional reputation by hazarding a guess on the correct Latin name, but was of the opinion that it was some sort of pigeon...
Questions will be asked concerning students' experience in vocations that range from Able Seaman to Home Pigeon Fanciers and from Metallurgical Engineers to masseurs...
Thoma admitted, however, that the new program will probably lead to a certain revision of the curriculum of many dental schools, notably the cutting down in number of secondary departments into which the instruction is pigeon-holed...