Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Albumin in the Plasma. But for all the debunking dissections, the camel's thirst-quenching secret remained hidden. Then, a young Israeli veterinarian went to work on the ship of the desert. The answer, says Dr. Kalman Perk, 34, of Rehovot's Hebrew University, is in the camel's bloodstream. The plasma has an extraordinary high content of a kind of albumin, which enables the blood to retain its water and maintain its volume and fluidity even when the water in the camel's tissues has been markedly depleted...
...from Tricycles. Dunlop rolled into the rubber business aboard a tricycle. Scottish Veterinarian John Boyd Dunlop fashioned a set of pneumatic tires for his small son; they rode so well that he went into business making racing cycle tires. The company still manufactures 4-oz. bike tires for racers. But it makes 1,800 other varieties as well...
...Thursday evening, 53 Roman Catholic laymen, their bags packed with enough clothing to last the weekend, checked into St. Martin's Church at Fulton Avenue and Fayette Street, on the city's multiracial, row-house downtown fringe. The group included doctors, lawyers, day laborers, college students, a veterinarian and a politician. When they registered at the door, they were asked to pocket their wristwatches. Until Sunday night, their hours would be on God's time, as they went through a new method of spiritual renewal known as Cursillos de Cristiandad (Spanish for Little Courses in Christianity...
...expanded practice, Veterinarian Miller, 39, brings a kennelside manner that is frequently more tolerant of the animals than of their keepers. Yet Miller's readers have responded by sending him 1,000 or more letters a month, covering a comprehensive range of problems. Miller is up to most of them. "I had a pet worm named Elmer and my little brother ate him up," wrote a youthful Lumbricus fancier. "Could Elmer still be alive?" Replied Miller: "I'm afraid Elmer passed on long ago." A woman reader wanted to know if her male canary, who spent narcissistic hours...
...Judge, A. J. Connor of the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire, gave Sarah Polansky '64 of Gilman House the minimum 60-day suspended sentence. Miss Polansky, daughter of a Lancaster, Mass., veterinarian, is a chemistry major who will graduate in February...