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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Startled by the Northerner's tone and manner, Dr. Dodge ventured a question on Dr. Straton's interpretation of evolution. Dr. Straton's reply was as the bolt of a self-appointed God of vengeance. Nettled, Dr. Dodge asked another question. Again the reply was bitter. Dr. Dodge grew warm, warmer, hot, and was answered by the shout of a fanatic: "I know what I am! You don't know what you are! And I know, too, that any man who believes in Evolution won't be saved. I know I will go to Heaven!" "I doubt it," snapped back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hint | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...window into her first stomach. This was her rumen or paunch, where she was storing up her freshly swallowed fodder. Later, when these annoying men departed, she would regurgitate a large fistful and chew it at contented leisure, mixing it with saliva, so that it would slide down, a warm and pleasant blob of food, into her second stomach. This was her reticulum, her honeycomb stomach, which some day will be used for honeycomb tripe. (The rumen constitutes ordinary tripe.) From the reticulum the food would pass through the third (omasum, bullock tripe) and fourth (abomasum, where milk-curdling rennet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peeking | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...Widener is very warm", said Plimpkin, "Very warm, indeed...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/17/1926 | See Source »

...Kewanee, Ill., one Glenn Beall, farmer, turned 50 hogs into a field of corn that had been under water for a long time. The grain had sprouted, turned to mash, fermented; greedily the hogs guffed and snuzzled. Soon a warm paradise bloomed in their brutish hides. They ran in circles, tottering. They knocked each other down, made love. Seven fell into a creek and drowned. Thirteen, eating too much of the alcoholic seed, perished in agony. Sitting safely on a fence, Farmer Glenn Beall watched a scene not unlike the one a Greek saw when amorous swine on an island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...deer at the base of the horns or just above the spine will often stun the animal for some time. Experienced deerslayers invariably sever their kill's jugular vein immediately upon reaching it, in the interests of safety, mercy, and to bleed the meat while it is still warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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