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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is a splendid denizen of the arctic deeps. The young, three or four feet long at birth, are black; the adults, 16 to 18 feet long, are milky white. They have highly developed blood systems in the chest region, and their brains are plentifully supplied with blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whale Y. Horse | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...horse's heart was somewhat bigger than the whale's-4,455 grams to 3,181-and so were his adrenals-47 grams to 35. But the whale's brain was nearly three times as big as the horse's-2,355 grams to 809-and the whale's thyroid was more than three times as big-108 grams to 33. On the whole, therefore, the whale's organic power plant was bigger. Scientific moral: Old Mother Nature, whose selection produced Delphinapterus leucas, is a better hand at turning out an efficient biological engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whale Y. Horse | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...lost three of these races through disqualifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whale Y. Horse | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...hair, into her finger. A few days later, when her finger swelled, her husband & colleague, Anatomist Eliot Round Clark, probed out the sliver of glass. To their amazement, the Clarks saw tiny blood vessels sprouting inside the tube. Because they were scientists, that gave them an idea. They got three rabbits, slit the delicate skin of their ears over a dime-sized area, sandwiched the ears between oval glass windows, long as an egg. Then, because they were scientists, they proceeded to annoy the exposed blood vessels in various ways -to provide scientists with a view of dynamic living tissues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rabbit Windows | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...bluff, red-faced President William S. Knudsen of General Motors Corp., nearby the slim figure of G. M. C.'s millionaire Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. In the defendants' sanctuary around them sat 15 others: President John J. Schumann Jr., of General Motors Acceptance Corp., three of his vice presidents, lesser G. M. C. officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: The Missing Conspirators | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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