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...they develop from the union of sperm cells and egg cells. Next comes the reproduction of fish and frogs, a barnyard view of chickens and cows. After the cow comes man. Dr. Levine bridges the gap with two pictures: a mother nursing her baby, a calf nuzzling at the udder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Telling the Children | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...eggs spurt out into a pan. Males are stripped of their milt in the same way, and when the eggs and milt are brought together, fertilization takes place quickly. But experts say that stripping a fighting, kicking steelhead is "like trying to milk a galloping cow with a greased udder." When the fish struggle hardest, large batches of eggs and milt may be sprayed out helter-skelter and lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twilight Sleep | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...observed to become plastic and flow under relatively low pressure, quartz remained brittle under the very highest confining and differential pressures. Studies of quartz, one of the most common minerals, are vital to investigation of conditions underground. Prior to these tests it was thought that quartz might become plastic udder the high pressures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physicist Unfolds Phenomena Of Rock With Super-Pressure | 12/6/1938 | See Source »

Under five feet, pumpkin-cheeked, with a button nose and a buttonhole mouth "nearly in the centre of his visage," a double chin that hung like an udder, deep red hair, high-domed forehead, big ears and plenty of fat. set off by the loudest clothes to be found in a loud century, Gibbon's personal appearance was the most noticeable of the handicaps reputed to have combined to produce the perfect historian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ugliest Historian | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...fables on the same theme, and although Robert Montgomery makes no effort to control his cuteness, Hide-Out is a likable little picture, full of sweetness, sincerity and scenes which should delight the Legion of Decency. Cleanest shot : Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan milking a cow whose udder is offscreen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 3, 1934 | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

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