Word: adults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strange Treadfellows. In Philadelphia, a classified advertisement in the Bulletin of the Philadelphia Herpetological Society offered to trade a "live adult Komodo Dragon for Chrysler fire engine and three snowshoes...
Majority's skillful, amiable performers almost camouflage its sociological pretensions. What Majority wants to be is an adult East-meets-Western. What it is is a middle-aged Abie's Irish Rose, and it may turn out to be almost as successful...
...islands' simple economy of coir (coconut fiber) and dried fish was totally disrupted by the British arrival. (Also disrupted was the domestic economy of Ceylonese housewives who regard Maldivian fish as an indispensable ingredient of curry, are now limited to a monthly ration of eight ounces per adult.) Gan's schoolteachers quit their jobs to sign on as high-paid laborers on the base, joining the 1,200 workmen imported from Pakistan. A Maldivian official sent from the capital island of Male to persuade the people of Gan to go back to their proper jobs was attacked...
...Great Pleasures." Rhode Island-born Marian Chace grew up in Washington after her newsman father switched from the Providence Journal to the Washington Star. She once studied with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, has taught dancing all her adult life. In the mid-'30s Washington psychiatrists began sending her children who were having difficulty in school or at home. In 1942, after she had had some success, Dr. Overholser invited her to work at St. Elizabeths as the first U.S. dance therapist. At that time, most psychiatrists felt that it was impossible to work in groups with acute...
Biologists guessed a generation ago that the metamorphosis of insects (changing from larvae to pupae and from pupae to adults) is probably controlled by a chemical hormone. Three years ago Dr. Williams extracted an oil from the abdomens of silkworm moths, injected it into silkworm pupae. It stopped their normal development. The pupae never became adult moths, instead developed into a second kind of pupa. Smaller doses brought forth monstrosities with mingled patches of adult and juvenile tissue. Williams concluded that the oil contained a "juvenile hormone...