Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moines, is optimistic about the commercial value of his wingless fowl. "Wings on a chicken," he declares, "are obsolete. The airplane characteristics of the usual chicken are a nuisance." His wingless chickens do not have to be confined by high wire fences, because their ceiling is about two feet. They are nice and quiet too, and the roosters don't fight much. They "dress -out" beautifully, says Baumann, "with white meat where the wings are on other birds. These chickens are the nearest thing to a schmoo of anything alive...
Last year the Harvardmen produced two cocoons whose silk was "hot" enough to impress their images on a photographic film. This year they hope to grow a kilo (2.2 lbs.) of the stuff for themselves and colleagues to study. The hot silk, even in this quantity, will not be a menace. Even if it should escape from the laboratory and get itself woven into underwear, it is not strong enough to damage the most sensitive skin...
...young Albert, music was sometimes a shattering experience. He once heard a group of older schoolboys practicing their singing lesson; the unexpected thrill of hearing two-part harmony, he wrote later, forced him to steady himself against the wall to keep from falling. When he first heard brass instruments played together, he says, "I almost fainted from excess of pleasure...
...Life and Thought, reissued this week by Henry Holt & Co. ($3.50). -A daughter, Rhena, was born in 1919, new lives near Zurich with her organ-technician husband and four children. - Schweitzer's address on that occasion, together with two of his other Goethe addresses and one essay, was published last week under the title Goethe, Four Studies by Albert Schweitzer (Beacon Press...
...Next I talked to Mrs. Horn. 'I wanted to buy a $299.95 refrigerator,' she said, 'but it was more than I could pay. I didn't want to buy it on installments. We weathered one depression that caught us paying on two babies, washer, car,, sweeper and furniture. So I said no to the refrigerator salesman and bought a secondhand one for $125.. . . I had a funny feeling that the $299.95 refrigerator would cost $229.95 next fall...