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...kittens and full-grown cats. Result (as reported in the Journal of Dental Research) : all the buds grew into full-size teeth. Eventually, said Dr. Shapiro last week, it may be possible to take a tooth bud from a child whose second teeth are obviously going to be crowded, sow it in the mouth of a gap-toothed adult...
Later, Ambassador Braden made a serious charge: "The recent campaign against myself and my country must have been instigated by foreign and Nazi elements. . . ." In a signed manifesto, 600 leading Argentines branded the anti-Braden campaign as an effort to "sow discord, mistrust . . . and hatred" in a Hitlerian fashion. Newspaper correspondents were even more forthright: they declared that Vice President Juan Domingo PerÓn had started the attack on Braden...
This year, Hayden will divide the 4,500 bushels of wheat which are to be replanted between 4-H groups and farmers who have pledged themselves to sow it. They will give 10% of next year's harvest to the church of their choice and 5% to the ''Dynamic Kernels Foundation" (incorporated to make charitable gifts, distribute literature "bearing especially upon Christian Stewardship and the blessings coming to those who tithe"). This year's tithe will go to local hospitals...
...spies and traitors, who had come out of retirement to prosecute the men of Vichy, hastily postponed plans for a trial of Petain in absentia, prepared a new trial for June or later. Cried the leftist press: "Petain is Germany's V5. . . . Germany wants to use him to sow disorder in France...
Irving traveled through the West with two Europeans. Count Albert-Alexandre de Pourtalès, 19, had been sent away from Switzerland to sow his wild oats in some other country. His tutor was Charles Joseph Latrobe, nephew of the architect of the Capitol, a botanist, geologist, musician, artist. With these companions Irving joined a Government expedition bound for Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory (near the present site of Tulsa, Oklahoma). Irving wrote Tour on the Prairies as a result of the trip, after filling five notebooks with his observations. The Western Journals of Washington Irving prints the notebooks...