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...Washington the Smithsonian Institution is shipping 57,200 insects to a secret cache. Why all the fuss over a tattered bug on a rusty pin? Or a frowsy bird skin? A pickled fish? Because these are the type specimens—the original catches from which the species was first scientifically described and defined. Like the platinum-iridium bar in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Sèvres on which the meter is engraved, each specimen is the standard against which other members of the species and new varieties are measured...
Their judgment isn't worth a pin...
...condemnation of the doctrines of the Socialist Workers' Party, to which the defendants belong. Because Marxist and Trotskyist literature was discovered in the Party offices, and because the defendants are believers in the Socialist doctrine of a working class revolution, they were convicted. The prosecution's attempt to pin the threat of immediate armed revolution on them was thrown out of court as an ungrounded farce...
...pin-sharp? Do you merkle? Or are you shill-shocked?" are some of the questions on the Senior Album Poll which was distributed yesterday. Coles H. Phinizy '42, ex-president of the Lampoon, who made up the questions, ought to know the answers if anyone does...
...pin-sharp," he revealed, is one skilled in playing pin-ball machines; "to merkle" is to be jubilant at your own misfortune, and "shill-shocked" refers to one who is conscience-bound not to put slugs in a juke...