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Word: hamsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furs are so high-priced. Some of them (wolf, mole, bull and hamster) cost well under $700, several (rabbit and fox paws), less than $300. The customer will obviously be paying more for the labor than for the fur. For, as Kaplan says of the new furs, "We have plucked them, unplucked them, sheared them, dyed them, cut them out, stenciled them and printed them. In other words, a little bit of God, and much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Skin Game | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). The Hamster of Happiness, starring Mildred Dunnock, presents a new actress (Susan Tyrrell) and a new playwright (Charles Eastman) with a story about a cantankerous woman and her frightened daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 23, 1968 | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...suspected of doing the same in man. Yet virus particles have never been found in human cancers. St. Louis University's Dr. Maurice Green now believes that even though the guilty viruses escape, he can get the evidence to convict them because they leave biochemical fingerprints. In hamster tumors that he provoked with a known virus, Dr. Green told an American Cancer Society seminar, he found large amounts of an abnormal, new form of RNA, one of the two principal nucleic acids. Now he is looking for similar fingerprints in human cancers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fingerprints from the Virus | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

Pets that are fun to play with, easy to care for and that thrive in captivity are hard to come by. For the past decade, the furry favorite has been the hamster, but it tends to be neurotic, eat its young and bite the hand that feeds it. Now another member of the rodent family has arrived on the scene, warming children's hands and parents' hearts wherever its fuzzy face appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pets: Happiness Is a Pocket Kangaroo | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...aardvark. One apprentice cook was kept beesy making hamster sandwiches, but he won no kudus for his efforts: the troops were looking for fancier fare, such as peppered leopard or antelope with cantaloupe. The troops washed down their meals with giraffes of wine, and afternoon visitors to Flagstaff House were offered tea and simba-thigh, followed by lemon meringue python...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Fangs a Lot | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

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