Word: queered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cold & Heredity. Not only X-rays but extremes of temperature produce such mutations as abnormal eyes, queer-shaped wings and bald thoraxes in Drosophila melanogaster, the little fruit fly made famous by the genetic researches of Thomas Hunt Morgan. Many a geneticist suspects that the impacts of cosmic rays also start mutations working in the germ plasm. When the National Geographic Society's balloon Explorer II made its record-breaking flight into the upper air last year, Dr. Victor Jollos of the University of Wisconsin sent jars of fruit flies up with it, outside the gondola. The insects died...
Illumines still the queer old story...
...first two marriages, of establishing a meeting-place for adventurous spirits in her villa in Florence, included droll accounts of how she almost had love affairs with an Italian chauffeur, a British officer, as well as with poets, painters and poseurs of varied talent. Written with a queer sort of frozen-faced malice that did not reveal what the author thought of the highbrow foolishness she observed, the memoirs presented their central character as at once high-strung and imperturbable, gushy but shrewd, a celebrity-hunter, falling for all manner of artistic fakers but preserving a strong streak of hard...
...closing may I add that there is a certain something about many of the Harvard students which, to me, is most amusing: namely, that queer desire to be individualistic. To that group, Individualism breathes Romanticism and Idolization. They do things to be different, yet know not what they do. For the sake of satisfying your own curiousity with a good laugh to boot, may I suggest, dear reader, that you visit your Communistic friend and ask him for HIS version of what Communism really is. Keith Bowen...
...Andre Jager-Schmidt, historian of Paris, learning of the North Carolina story for the first time on hearing that the schoolmaster's grave was to be reopened, delved into the records which, by a queer thrust of fate, happen to be housed in the very suite of Luxembourg Palace where Ney was held a prisoner during his court martial. He finds abundant evidence to show that Ney was really shot...