Word: yolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back aboard, he awoke to find in his bunk a scaly, lizard-like creature about a foot long, with a stubby snout and a tongue that looked like a worm. Seaman Frazeur greeted the creature with no amazement, named it Pandora, fed it on milk and egg yolk. When he went back to the U. S., Pandora went with...
...must plaster only as large an area as he can complete in a single day's work. The pigment employed in the "true fresco" technique is mixed with slaked lime and water, while the retouching of the various seams made in the plaster is done in pigment mixed with yolk...
...good stained glass, covers eight typewritten pages, can "go wrong in 40 ways," comes out striated with layers of green and white beneath the red. To approximate the colors with which pious artisans glorified God at Chartres and Poitiers, Artist Saint has cooked up messes of egg-yolk, hollyhock, calendula and portulaca. To get a certain yellow, Mr. Saint boiled a cow's hoof, as a medieval manuscript directed. So noisome was the process that Artist Saint had to yell for his sons to carry the bubbling hellbroth away...
...started the day, whatever the weather, by a run and a swim in the Serpentine. In one Christmas-Day swimming race his chest was severely cut by the ice. He bought his eggs by the week, turned them over each morning like so many hour-glasses, so that the yolk would not settle to the edge, start rotting. After three years of London, Fowler joined his brother Frank on the island of Guernsey, lived in hermit-like sociability, 50 yards away from him, until the War. Fowler liked to work sitting in the door of his cottage, dressed in football...
...Riddle's pigeons laid golden eggs, all yolk with neither shell nor white, because he removed their thymus glands. Dr. Rowntree's husky baby rats played precociously because he stimulated their thymus glands with sweetbread extract. Then Dr. Riddle turned another neat trick by giving sweetbread extract to his thymectomized pigeons, which promptly began to lay normal, shell eggs...