Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shapiro's feat is the latest development in the artificial parthenogenesis, or sexless reproduction, of mammals. Sexless reproduction occurs naturally among many insects and has long been induced by curious biologists in sea urchins and frogs. Fatherless mammals were first produced in 1939 by Dr. Gregory Pincus (now of Clark University), who artificially fertilized ova from doe rabbits by 1) a salt solution, 2) heat, 3) cold. The salt-fertilized eggs, with no contact at all from the male, were replanted in the does and gestated normally into healthy bunnies, themselves capable of sexual reproduction...
...amazed by this performance was the Catalina's builder, big, blue-eyed Major Reuben Hollis Fleet, chief executive and chief owner of Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Like all oldtimers in Consolidated's tightly knit hierarchy, he has long since ceased to be surprised at any feat a Cat performs. But he has not lost his capacity for pride. It has plenty to feed on in the Cat's nest in a sunlit stretch between crowded Pacific Highway and San Diego (Calif...
...Dwyer became successively a coal passer, longshoreman, hod carrier, plasterer's helper, policeman, attorney, magistrate, juvenile-delinquency expert, county judge, district attorney. Steadily the Democratic machine had brought him along. His culminating feat: smashing Brooklyn's grubby ring of gutter killers, dubbed "Murder...
Mencken was city editor of the Baltimore Morning Herald at 23, managing editor of the Evening Herald at 25. His greatest feat was to write, after close study of maps and ship names, an imaginary account of the Russo-Japanese naval battle at Tsushimi, which coincided so closely with the actual news trickling in two weeks later that he scored a fortnight's beat on the world...
There were only two bright spots in the afternoon for the Crimson and they penetrated the gloom like neon signs in Harlem. Loren MacKinney's feat has already been mentioned--practically climbing up on the defending half back shoulders to snare a 31-yard Lee aerial and then on the following play snagging another 25-yard looper from Johnson to bring the Crimson to the Penn 14-yard stripe for their only serious threat...