Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...material to prove it, trouble soon broke out among officers and crew. Bligh's only remedy was a traditional dozen lashes for each offender. Little of the drama of the Bounty's seizure makes its way through Dr. Mackaness' professorial prose. But the great story of Mate Fletcher Christian's attack on his captain, the subsequent travels of Bligh, the mutineers, the vessels searching for the Bounty, appears all the more astonishing when supported by charts of the voyages, detailed records of the fate of each outlaw, and accounts of the state of contemporary knowledge...
Firmly established is the Slye doctrine that susceptibility to cancer is inherited as a recessive Mendelian character, transmitted by a single gene. Resistance to the disease is a dominant character, and represses, but does not obliterate, the susceptibility factor whenever they occur together. A resistant individual mated to a susceptible one will have resistant offspring. But these offspring carry the susceptibility gene concealed in their germ plasm, and if they mate with susceptibles the second generation will be liable to cancer. The Slye mice show that not only inherited susceptibility but also some injury or chronic irritation is necessary...
Calliope's mate...
President Roosevelt washed his hands of the Canal and its legislative mate, Maine's Passamaquoddy Dam. Last fortnight he reconsidered, had Majority Leader Joe Robinson attempt to hitch them to the First Deficiency (Relief) Bill. Tired, ailing Senator Fletcher made a long, earnest plea for the Canal, and his colleagues, largely out of affection for the man who was senior in service to all of them except Idaho's Borah and senior in age to all except Virginia's Glass, voted a conditional $10,000,000 for the Florida ditch, though rejecting the Maine...
...called "must" (from the Hindu mast, meaning ruttish, intoxicated). Because of it. bull elephants are extremely rare in U. S. circuses and zoos. Some months ago Director Edmund Heller of San Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo decided to try breeding his four cow elephants, began looking for a mate. He wrote to famed Animal Collector Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck, who had supplied three of the cows, and both searched in vain until the Al G. Barnes Circus announced that it would be glad to give San Francisco a bull which had be come a nuisance because...