Word: squirrel
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...particular bacillus used in Dr. Francis' experiment was taken in 1923 from a sick California ground squirrel. It was used to inoculate 48 test tubes partly filled with beef infusion agar jelly. The tubes were tightly sealed to insure a moist atmosphere and stored at a temperature...
...Littlefork, Minn., a lunchroom last week regaled diners with a new delicacy -beaverburgers (made from beaver). U.S. citizens were eating horse, rabbit and squirrel in quantities worthy of note. And last week the Department of Interior announced that there would soon reappear on U.S. dinner tables, for the first time since World War I, a more substantial addition to the nation's meat supply: whale meat...
...child's name was undisclosed. "I think Eunice wants to name it after my nephew's boy," Charlie told a visiting reporter and photographer. Asked what the boy's name was, Charlie said: "I can't recollect." "See yan branch," he said, pointing with his squirrel rifle, "well, that's the dividing line. No photographers can cross it." The newsmen went away...
...Rose, 2½, was sick in bed. Hers was no ordinary childhood disease. She had bubonic plague-the first case reported in the U.S. since last year when two boys in the same county died of the disease (TIME, Sept. 8, 1941). She had probably caught it from ground-squirrel fleas while playing in the hay in her father's barn...
...Squirrel. In Manhattan, Alfred Felardo was arrested for tying nuts and grapes on a little branch, holding it out to squirrels in the park, jerking it away when they jumped...