Word: originated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...together a psychological profile of their prey. They can tell by the handmade wooden boxes and by the tiny, handcrafted screws that he is a meticulous, even compulsive, man. He spends hours, they say, cutting, filing and whittling little bits of metal and wood, removing any hints of their origin. According to retired FBI bomb expert James Ronay, the bomber also assembles and disassembles the whole thing several times before he is through. He has "an uncontrollable urge to fool with this thing as much as possible," Ronay explains. "And ultimately you put it down and have it kill somebody...
Mayr's early work peaked with the publication of his 1942 book Systematics and the Origin of the Species, a cornerstone of modern evolutionary theory and the new systematics...
...young men entering college were allowed to choose their Houses, those coming from the same school, or from schools of the same type and from similar early surroundings, would naturally select the same House; and thus there would be a segregation among Houses on the basis of origin-certainly a most unfortunate...
...according to junior forward Brad Konik, the Crimson's early problems are more mental than physical in origin...
Thus far, health officials have found no common origin of the mysterious illness. However, incoming tests from patient cultures have now ruled out salmonella, shigella, campylobacter and yersinia strains of bacteria as a potential cause of the illness...