Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Psychologist Vince is not sure what causes the clicking, but she thinks it is associated with lung ventilation and serves as a form of communication be tween the eggs. As more mature embryos move toward the hatching stage, she says, their clicking stimulates faster development of younger embryos in adjacent eggs, so that all of the eggs hatch around the same time. To check her theory, she shortened the normal incubation period of a quail egg by placing it in a nest of other quail eggs that began incubation at least 24 hours earlier. Stimulated by the surrounding clicks...
...words-owes to the author's experiences. The son of a petit bourgeois whose roots ran deep in France's soil, Balzac never really escaped his origins. Of life he demanded money, love and magic -the themes of all his books-and spent them faster than they came in. He dreamed of the $100,000 pineapple crop he would harvest from the slope of his modest villa in Ville-d'Avray, of fortunes in old Roman silver to be found in Sardinia-meanwhile hiding from creditors in the home of one of his married mistresses...
...shrank when the men simply got up from a sitting position. It did so again during mild exercise. Eating a heavy meal had the same effect as exercise, and walking upstairs immediately after eating intensified the changes. By afternoon, the heart rate averaged ten to 20 beats a minute faster than in the morning...
Though the country's imports are still growing faster than exports, the Chancellor promised that Britain will scrap its 10% tariff surcharge in November. The surcharge on imports has run into much criticism, particularly from Britain's trading partners in the European Free Trade Association...
...like them, she wore them only once; if she did, she wore them out." In Auguste de Forbin, a society painter "endowed with a usable gigantism," she found a man who wore her out. To the horror of her husband, Prince Camillo Borghese, she went through money even faster than men, but she always found cash when Big Brother needed it. Were she and Napoleon lovers? Several members of the family always liked to think so. In any case, Pauline was burnt out at 40. Her circulation became permanently deranged, and to warm her cold toes, she tucked them under...