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Word: oaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moths won't mate without oak leaves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biologists Study Moths' Sex Life, Find Oak Vapor 'Turns Them On' | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...Harvard biologists have found that when the female polyphemus moth, receives the vapor from the oak through its antennae, it releases a chemical--a sex pheromone--which activates the male...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biologists Study Moths' Sex Life, Find Oak Vapor 'Turns Them On' | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...Only Oak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biologists Study Moths' Sex Life, Find Oak Vapor 'Turns Them On' | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...Oak is the only plant which activates sexual activity." Dr. Riddiford said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biologists Study Moths' Sex Life, Find Oak Vapor 'Turns Them On' | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...gang members were vocationally talented; they drilled 48 holes to remove a panel in a stout oak door of the Dulwich College museum without tripping an alarm attached to the frame. Their taste in art was impeccable; they snatched eight old masters worth some $7,000,000, including three Rembrandts (among them the widely admired A Girl at a Window). What they had not figured out was who would pay them for their night's work. The college was heavily in debt, and in no position to afford a ransom. None of the works were insured, a fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: An Unprofitable Robbery | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

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