Word: pubic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work (they eliminated it too fast). So Lorenz injected pellets of the substance under their skin, let them absorb it slowly. The results were startling. In two to six weeks the roosters' red combs paled and shrank; they grew female feathers and a layer of fat; their pubic bones spread; they lolled around like capons. After roasting, they tasted much better than ordinary cockerels. When Lorenz treated stringy, dark-fleshed old roosters, their meat also became light and tender. Lorenz has tried his discovery only on chickens and turkeys, but biochemists do not expect it to stop there; some...
...plan, he points out, "will succeed or fail according to the way it serves the interests of he pubic, for, after all, dentists and dental schools exist only because they satisfy pubic need. Dentistry, dental schools, and the new plan at Harvard will exist only so long as they fulfill that need...