Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BLANCHARD Berkeley, Calif...
Died. Bernard Ralph Maybeck, 95, pioneer modern architect, "grandfather of the California style," designer of the Palace of Fine Arts for San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition; in Berkeley, Calif. Some 5 ft. small, his head ever topped, outdoors or in, with a knitted tam-o'-shanter, his gnomelike beard imitating Santa Claus, Maybeck was one of the first to design walls of glass, one of the first practitioners of "open planning" to allow for expansion, invented (in 1890s) the kitchen-dining-living-room combination...
...hooks to fill a good-sized cloakroom. Meanwhile, the younger kids scrape and squabble, while the old folks lead lives of quiet exasperation: a mother dies:a father loses his job; a family moves to another town. No small-town girl herself, Author Winsor (who grew up in Berkeley, Calif.) has caught a few authentic echoes of small-town speech. She quotes Dostoevsky to the effect that "there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome" than "a memory of childhood." But then, Dostoevsky never knew Kathleen Winsor, who makes childhood seem grubby, and sex sound like a bore...
...this is quite a trick, but Dr. Gordon accomplished it while working at the University of California in Berkeley. The two kinds of rabbit sperm cells look exactly alike, but there is nevertheless a slight difference between them. Dr. Gordon believes that the protein that coats them may not be identical. At any rate, the X and Y sperms behave differently when a gentle electric current is passed through a solution in which they are suspended. Under favorable circumstances, the X (female) sperms move toward the positive anode, and the Y (male) sperms move toward the negative cathode...
...alarm clock to wake us up at various points." Speaking of non-Roman Catholic denominations, he said: "With all respect to them ... all the identity discs in heaven are marked RC." His most widely quoted witticism is also one of the most famed Limericks in the language, kidding Bishop Berkeley's doctrine that things exist only when observed...