Word: breasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawrence wrote again. He said frankly that "my quarreling with you was largely a quarreling with something . . . I was struggling away from in myself." He described his latest conclusions about "a blood-consciousness which exists in us independently of the ordinary mental consciousness . . . If a lizard falls on the breast of a pregnant woman, then the blood-being of the lizard passes with a shock into the blood-being of the woman, and is transferred to the fetus . . . Do you know what science says about these things...
...months, like a ham actor overplaying a role, Hollywood has been beating its breast and wailing about the hard times. There is plenty of reason for wailing. Studios like Warner and RKO are carrying on only token operations; Eagle-Lion has suspended production. The foreign market is shot, the cost of making pictures has risen skyhigh, like everything else, and who can predict what damage television will eventually do to the movie industry...
...sufferers was the takahe (Notornis hochstetteri), a bird 18 inches tall with a bronze-green breast and rudimentary wings. According to Maori tales, it had once made plentiful good eating, but only four were ever killed by white men. One was dragged out of the bush by a dog in 1898 and sold to the New Zealand government for $1,000. That was the last; for 50 years the takahe was officially extinct...
...MacVicar, Norm Watkins, Chuck Hoolzer (last year's captain), and Bob Berke, a promising sophomore who captained last season's '51 outfit. Several other new arrivals from the ranks of the sophomore class include John Steinhardt in the 150-yd. backstroke, Rene Vielman in the 220-yd. breast-stroke, Pete Bierre in the 440-yd. freestyle, and Bob Tolf, also in the freestyle...
...breast-beating was mostly over; the incurably forward-looking editors had closed ranks and gripped hands on a determination not to commit such sinful errors again. As far as the A.P. was concerned, it had done its usual good job of reporting the state-by-state returns with speed and accuracy. But, like everybody else, it had been slow to realize that the vote was going to contradict the opinion polls. Said the New Orleans Times-Picayune's George W. Healy Jr.: "Even when Truman was leading, [A.P.] always put Dewey first, saying he was leading in ten states...