Word: matings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long drives. She flew home from Milwaukee (90 miles) faster than he could drive. When the male bats arrived in September, he realized it was time for the White Lady to carry on with her own life, so he put her back in the grotto to find her mate...
Following suggestions from earlier experimenters, he focused on a weakness of the flies: the females are strictly monogamous. They mate only once with one male. Then they reject other suitors and concentrate on laying eggs. So Bushland raised a flock of flies on a mixture of blood and hamburger and irradiated them heavily with X rays. This treatment made them sterile. When the X-rayed males mated with fertile wild females, the females laid infertile eggs...
Harvard's varsity wrestlers came heartbreakingly close to beating Yale Saturday afternoon, but an upset in a key mate gave Yale...
...twin rescue jobs which followed will be long remembered among New England mariners. A Coast Guard boatswain's mate named Bernard Webber lashed himself to the wheel of a 36-ft. open power lifeboat and went out to the Pendleton. Eight men had been on the Pendleton's bow; all were lost. But in the light of flares, Webber and his lifeboat snatched 32 seamen on her stern from certain death. A 33rd was drowned...
...Robert Lippincott, sailing his Star Class boat Mate to three straight victories, the 21st annual Cuba Cup race; at Havana...