Word: swine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snell describes heterosis in the case of swine (Hampshires crossed with Duroc Jerseys produced superior pigs). Since he cannot repeat the same experiment with people, he sifts a great mass of records to look for self-propelled experiments in human hybridization...
...German dockworker peered through the drizzly fog that hung over the North Sea port of Bremerhaven last week and muttered: "Da kommen die Schweine [There come the swine]." Out of the mist lumbered two sharp-prowed, 6,500-ton icebreakers wearing huge Soviet flags on their sterns and the painted-over names"North-wind" and "Westwind" on their bows. Six years after the U.S. had lend-leased these $10,000,000 vessels to its wartime ally, the Russians handed them back, somewhat-the worse for wear and well dappled with rust...
...this, including the sound effects, has been reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, whose swine experts are interested but still somewhat skeptical. They point out that the necessary apparatus is expensive and complicated. They fear that the sows will be damaged physically or psychologically when their piglets are taken away. But their real worry is a problem of acoustics. They suspect that under average farm conditions, the recorded dinner music will not wake all the little pigs and save them from the dangerous error of missing a meal...
...dither in the London Times over collective nouns for animals [TIME, June 4]: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 14th-Century romance Sir Nigel speaks of a cete of badgers, a singular of boars, a sounder of swine (when hunted), a nye of pheasants, a badling of ducks, a fall of woodcock, a wisp of snipe...
...Spain's 1936-39 civil war; after long illness; near Seville. The marquis was famed for only one military feat: outfoxing superior Loyalist forces in Seville, and easily taking the city. Mostly, he fought the war-and won his reputation-with nightly propaganda broadcasts ("The common people are swine . . . Spain must again be made a country fit for caballeros to live...