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...pigeon got in is unknown, but rumors were circulating that someone was planning to outdo the goldfish and white mice gulpers...
Forty-three ounces of gray-streaked pigeon flesh flapped into the Union dining hall sun porch at 5:51 o'clock last night, terrifying dozens of Yardlings, who had been peacefully drinking their cream of spinach soup...
...Unethical, undesirable, but damned useful." Human minds cannot fairly be put into pigeon-holes. Nor can their opinions on a subject like tutoring at Harvard be accurately summed up in a flashy epigram. Each student thinks differently about it, and the collective opinion is a many-tentacled monster indeed. But in five succinct words, one student did succeed in roughly synthesizing the sentiments which the majority of his fellows nurse, and which they recorded in the Crimson poll...
...precipitation," the Riddle laboratory crew obtained a pituitary substance which did not noticeably affect the thyroid or the sex glands, but which had a marked effect on the mammary glands. It started milk production not only in normal female guinea pigs but also in spayed females and males. In pigeons it thickened the crop sac, which provides a liquid ("pigeon milk") with which pigeons feed their young. Riddle called this new hormone prolactin...
...sparkle. He smokes a great many de-nicotinized cigarets down to ragged little stubs. In his enthusiasm he lunches in his laboratory on sandwiches, coffee and condensed cream, perhaps with the bloody carcass of a rat in the sink at his elbow and surrounded by jars of pickled pigeon specimens. He used to play golf but has given it up, used to be a bachelor, but gave that up also almost at the age of 60, when he married...