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...years ago Serge Voronoff, gland transplanter, tried to get a child from Nora, a chimpanzee into whom he had sewn human ovaries. For a time Nora seemed gravid. But nothing came of the experiment (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927). The present Russian effort is to produce creatures who, like mules and catalos (cattle-buffalo), are more primitive than their primevally related parents. If by improbable chance any of the Ivanoff children are fertile, they may yield generations to visibly bridge the gap between...
...returning midnight sun. Any unexplained man-made thing has awful import in the ice desert. The Germans clambered over the ridged ice to the skis, chopped them loose, chopped deeper into the frozen snow until they found the body of lost Professor Alfred Lothar Wegener. The body was carefully sewn within two blankets and covered with fur coats. The last chapter of Professor Wegener's career was clear...
...Albans, L. I., Bobby Brown, 4, carries sewn on his jumper front this sign: "Please do not give any food to Bobby...
...crowning a Pope, the officiating cardinal deacon advances, supporting with outstretched arms a tall headdress of cloth-of-gold, sewn with precious stones, encircled with three coronets, surmounted by a cross, and says...
...only really successful Crusade was the first, the one Author Lamb tells about: "... a migration, and a journey, and war. All kinds of people joined the marchers, lords and vagabonds, weapon men and peasants, proud ladies and tavern drabs. ... On the shoulders of their jackets they wore a cross, sewn out of cloth, and because of this they were called the cruciati, or cross-bearers." The Turks called them Franks, because most of them, especially in the First Crusade, were French...