Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister dined with his wife, daughter and a few friends. Soon after dinner they all took sick. Doctors were summoned and found the food had been poisoned. All the diners survived. Last week news of the poison plot leaked out through diplomatic channels when British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax sent Colonel Songgram official British condolences over the "cowardly attempt of an individual or individuals to destroy the lives" of the Premier and his dinner party...
They have measured the crop-sac response of pigeons so closely that it serves as a quantitative test for prolactin in samples sent there by other laboratories. Dr. Bates, who took part in the original discovery of the hormone, has specialized in this "biological assay." Dr. Schooley has worked out a pituitary removal technique for pigeons, going in through the pharynx at the back of the throat, which leaves the back lobe of the gland intact so that almost all the birds survive the operation...
...never lost his admiration for things American, or his pride in the language he had learned as a boy. He corresponded with American friends in English, taught English to his household servants, sent two Japanese girls to the Chicago World's Fair to introduce tea ice cream to America. Last year when an American friend toasted his 92nd birthday (Japanese are one year old at birth) he said he expected to live to be 125. But he had previously transferred his title to his son, Taro, and was ready for death. Last week it came to Tycoon Takashi Masuda...
...later, Macaulay left behind a new Indian penal code and educational system, had saved ?30,000.) He became the most successful English essayist (sometimes so intoxicated with erudite digressions that he wound up lamely saying that space did not permit him to finish); and a historian whose publishers gladly sent him ?20,000 advance royalties on the last volume of his History of England. Thus ugly, harsh-voiced Thomas Macaulay seemed, to all but a handful of his contemporaries, to have amply fulfilled the promise of his precocious beginnings...
...fact, if Yale doesn't watch out, somebody is going to take some sort of action. Indeed it is high time that Yale students take cognizance of the famed "mere presence" clause. Harvard authorities will not stand for any more nonsense, and a copy of the following will be sent to all Yale undergraduates in due time...