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...dreadful din. But when performing solo, Sturnus vulgaris is one of the most versatile of all bird mimics. It not only imitates the songs of many birds but also reproduces, with uncanny fidelity, the cackle of a laying hen, the tentative chirps of young robins, the plaint of annoyed guinea fowl, even the mew of a kitten or the whistling...
...ordinary run-of-the-mill patients [are] deficient in vitamin C and 13% [are] on the verge of scurvy." They have no reserve of healing "cement substances" in their blood, and not enough of the elements that build bones, teeth and cartilage. Since healing wounds of vitamin C-deficient guinea pigs have "inferior tensile strength, a disposition to gape ... a livid appearance, and a soft consistency," they rupture easily. Lack of vitamin C may also be a factor in causing human peritonitis, for bacteria easily "leak" into an abdominal wound unprotected by healthy, growing tissue. Deficiency of vitamin B hampers...
...only trouble with the North Sea experiment was that the guinea pigs flatly refuted the experimenters' report. The only unquestioned result was a bewildering altercation between Herr Goring's office and Great Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, effervescent Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill...
Last week the U. S. people were witnessing and undergoing an experiment in applied Economy. The Congressmen who initiated it having gone home to their guinea pigs, the officials who had to direct it from Washington went sadly but not silently to work...
...stride than did Seabrook. On one occasion he says he led a highly successful head-hunting expedition to save his own neck, spares few details in describing it and the three-day orgy which followed. As other races use lanterns, flags and bunting for celebrations, the natives of New Guinea string up their victims' vertebrae...