Word: motherless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months after the death of her husband, King Albert, Dowager Queen Elizabeth heard the news in Naples where she was visiting her daughter, Crown Princess Marie Jose of Italy. Her first move was to accept heartbroken King Leopold's request that she take care of his three motherless children: Crown Prince Baudoin, 5, Princess Josephine, 7, Prince Albert, 14 months...
...five days, the weight of an ovary increased from 90 mg. to 284 mg." Simultaneously yellow spots which developed on the ovaries suggested that they, while attached to the glass heart, might actually have produced eggs. If so, laboratory technicians conceivably might some day fertilize and incubate such motherless eggs to produce chicks or kittens. Because Dr. Robert E. Cornish of Berkeley, Calif, has revived "dead" dogs by forcing relatively crude chemicals into their veins and then wobbling them on a seesaw, an unrestrained imagination last week could foresee Drs. Carrel & Lindbergh placing whole animals?chickens. cats, dogs, possibly superannuated...
With a tragic, white face Judge Oakes returned from his conference. "I am obliged to call this a mistrial," he said. Court attendants flocked around him sympathetically, watched him walk slowly out of the courtroom. When he got home he sent his motherless 14-year-old daughter away, climbed into bed, telephoned his friend the county medical referee to come over to his house. Then Judge Oakes shot himself through the head with a revolver...
While the court continued to sit last week, while the mothership Lucia remained disgracefully at anchor, the Atlantic Fleet, including four motherless submarines, steamed off for the West Indies...
...Maverick?an unbranded animal, esp. a motherless calf, formerly customarily claimed by the first one branding it." (Webster...