Word: urchins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basso Pinza stopped singing. "Little boy," he said, "stop waggling your foot." "Who, me?" said the urchin. "Yes, you," said Basso Pinza, waggling his own foot. "Please don't waggle your foot this way; it interferes with my tempo." The concert went...
...knowledge, experimental biologists tweak the nose of Nature by causing plants and animals to produce offspring without proper parentage. Tadpoles have been coaxed out of unfertilized frogs' eggs; live, healthy rabbits have been born after a conception which took place m a_ glass vessel; cell fragments of sea urchin eggs-fragments not even containing the female nucleus-have been fertilized with hypertonic sea water. Reported last week was a new fraud on Nature: the fertilization of holly and other plants with a chemical instead of natural pollen...
...step nearer solving the Allston urchin problem, Brooks House announced yesterday that its plan for keeping the huge Smith playground back of the Business School open during the winter months and staffed by Harvard volunteers has been favorably received by Boston Park Commissioner William Long...
...middle of yesterday afternoon, when the Yard was beginning to recover from the violent interruptions of the morning that had broken its peace, a very small urchin stuck his face around the huge corner of the Widener Library steps. Cars were splashing away in the streets, but inside the Yard traffic consisted only of a few preoccupied pedestrians. The boy surveyed the situation for several minutes, then walked in an absolutely straight line toward a pile of snow in front of the Library. As he bent over to break the crust of ice, he didn't look much higher than...
...accumulated deposits of a village site, ranging in depth from a yard or so to 16 ft., contain ashes, shells, sea urchin spines, rotted wood and sod, bones of fish, birds and mammals (including whales), blown dust or silt, organic refuse of all sorts. Naturally the scientist cannot see this stuff without digging, because it is covered with vegetation. It is the vegetation itself which gives the clue. Rooted in such beds of unintentional fertilizer, the growth is darker, richer and taller than the average, and may show a luxuriant cover of plants which are rare elsewhere. On Kodiak Island...