Word: blanchard
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HOMOSEXUALITY Ray Blanchard at the University of Toronto has found that gay men are more likely than either lesbians or heterosexual men to have older brothers (but not older sisters). He has since confirmed this observation in 14 samples from many places. Something about occupying a womb that has held other boys occasionally results in reduced birth weight, a larger placenta and a greater probability of homosexuality. That something, Blanchard suspects, is an immune reaction in the mother, primed by the first male fetus, that grows stronger with each male pregnancy. Perhaps the immune response affects the expression...
...movie features Jason Lee as John Plummer, a well-meaning uncle who promised his niece, Noreen, that he would pay for college once she was admitted. Noreen, played by Tammy Blanchard, lives in a trailer park with her unemployed mother...
...then there are the artistic visions which never quite made it to the finish line. Supervisor Mari Jaye Blanchard pointed out a few panels propped up in the corner. “There’s a couple of them, I just really wonder about their lack of enthusiasm,” she sighed. The panels showed half-painted heads under fireman’s helmets, and large blocks of gray. Meaning to depict the collapse of the World Trade Center, the artists apparently lost interest in the project as the terrorist attack slipped down in the headlines...
...Owing to the prevalence of the fashion for magenta between the years 1860 and 1864 and the inability of the members of the various athletic teams to procure crimson for their insignia, magenta was, of necessity, accepted as a poor substitute,” wrote John Blanchard, Class of 1891, in The H Book of Harvard Athletics. Frederic C. Crowninshield, Class of 1866, who was a cousin of the rower who bought the original kerchiefs with Eliot, wrote in 1865 that students could not find crimson because magenta was so in vogue, and thus had to buy the more popular...
...fancy skating for women, Mme. Herman Szabo-Plank of Austria won first, with Miss Beatrice Loughan, American, second and Miss Theresa Blanchard of America, fourth...