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...guinea to a farthing," cried one knowing neighbor, "she has been at Mother Wells...
Britain, which has already sent most of its fleet, will send more troops. Canada will send some volunteers. Australian forces already have their hands full cleaning up the Solomons and New Guinea, boring into Borneo...
Laboratoiy workers consider the hamster's laboratory qualifications practically ideal: it is even more susceptible to human diseases than the guinea pig. The gestation period is the shortest known for a mammal-15 days, 21 hours. It begins to mate by its 43rd day, bears its first litter at the age of two months. Thereafter, until the age of one year, when it stops bearing, it can deliver a litter of two to 15 young every month...
...hamster is slightly smaller than a guinea pig and looks like a toy bear. It eats practically anything: carrots, cabbage, lettuce, peanuts, dog chow, calf meal. It drinks no water, getting all the liquid it needs from leafy vegetables. At mealtimes, it stows all its food in huge pouches in its cheeks; later it empties the pouches and chews at leisure. Its only defects as a laboratory animal: it likes to fight other hamsters, and a hamster, if disturbed during a delivery, may eat her young...
...some respects the most amazing achievement of
Christianity in all its history." The evidence is in his new book, They
Found the Church There (Scribner; $1.75). Chiefly it is a collection of
personal stories and testimonies by scores of servicemen.