Word: human
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...living contemporaries is worth talking about. . . . Conrad's work will be dead in a year. Anyone could write the stuff he wrote about barges floating in green-blue hazes. . . . Thomas Hardy couldn't write two lines of correct English and . . . had no insight into human nature...
...whether there would also be present one of the lively young chimpanzees which are bred especially for Dr. Voronoff's convenience in French West Africa by the Pasteur Institute. With thin sharp knives Surgeon Voronoff can slice from a chimpanzee glands which he then swiftly inserts in a human so unscrupulous as to wish to profit by the poor beast's loss...
Whatever may have been the reasons for his writing about twins in these plays and others, it was a fortunate compulsion. Twins, are among the most engrossing of human phenomena. Twins are principal characters in The Bridge of San Luis Rey, brilliant best-selling novel by Thornton Wilder, himself one of twins. Almost every person includes in his acquaintance a pair of twins and contemplates their doings with delight and astonishment. For this reason, a wide interest attaches itself to a research begun last week by the University of California. Learned faculty members planned to assemble 500 pairs of twins...
...biological sport, with the exception of the Texas armadillo* which reproduces regularly in this way. It bears four young of the same sex, having a common set of embryonic membranes, strikingly similar in general configuration, all coming from a single egg. Thus they parallel as quadruplets the conditions of human identical twins. Exactly what causes the egg to divide is not definitely known. Dr. Horatio H. Newman, zoologist at the University of Chicago, has patiently pursued simpler species in the hope of finding a clue. After sacrificing several starfish he has shown twinning among echinoderms to be caused by retardation...
...Barron is one of the most difficult men in Palm Beach to catch for an interview. . . . However, when he was cornered-the word is well chosen-in his sunny apartment in Whitehall overlooking Lake Worth yesterday morning, he graciously consented to talk on anything from Wall Street to the human ear-the latter being one of his absorbing interests at present...