Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whose mother, Lady Furness, is Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski's aunt...
...mice, still untested, had unusual ancestry. They were descended from fertilized ova transplanted from a female brown mouse into the womb of a black one. All the "genes" in their cells were of brown-mouse origin. Only the nourishment materials which formed their infant bodies came from their foster mother...
...Oahu Island, where his father was overseer of a sugar plantation. A tireless man, his father often wore out three horses in the course of a day's riding about the fields. He died when Billy, as he was then called, was 8. Young Billy and his mother, who worked in different places while Billy sandwiched in his hit-or-miss schooling, traveled back & forth between San Francisco and Hawaii. When he was 14, his mother decided that it was time Billy got a formal education, and enrolled him in the Honolulu military academy. He had been there only...
...gradually moved up from office boy to paying teller, convinced Wells Fargo that he was the smart lad he seemed by catching a forger his first day on the new job. When his mother remarried, he moved into a house with twelve other young fellows, picked up the nickname "Pat." He never had much time for fun, but he distinguished himself one day by pouring a bottle of ink into the tub as one of his fellow roomers was taking a bath in preparation for his wedding. Toward the end of World War I, Pat enlisted. The war ended before...
...Mother Love. In Cape Town, South Africa, Chatrina Stoffberg hurled her baby at another woman during a heated quarrel, lifted the uninjured infant off the concrete floor, took it to prison with her when she was sentenced to three months hard labor...