Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inquisitive minds since antiquity. The hope of using such knowledge consciously to control the sex of offspring for practical breeding purposes as well as sentiment, has perhaps moved them most. But while few geneticists are willing to make any predictions about such possibilities, many foremost investigators are working to reveal the actual mechanics of the sex causation process. Not less than 500 theories-the majority fanciful old wives' tales based on no laboratory investigation of living material-have been recorded in literature. The most popular of these theories have had to do with: 1) the relative vigor...
Divorce. If you are a gum chewer, female, happily married to a drug clerk, this picture will reveal just what is going to happen when the family fortunes rise and your man suddenly accepts a position as general manager of the chemical factory. You will move up to a small edition of the Ritz in the Social Register section and he will promptly begin staying late at the club. You will catch him having lunch with a vapid vampire and soon he will request a divorce. Then you will go to your father who, fortunately enough, owns the chemical works...
...Foreign Minister, made a speech at Prague in which he defined the attitude of Czecho-Slovakia toward Hungary. After he had finished his opponents said: " No one should know the disposition of his country toward another better than Dr. Benes, but when he resorts to choosing facts calculated to reveal Hungary in the most odious light, his assertions sink to the worthless level of propaganda...
...trial balloon rose rapidly through the stagnant political atmosphere of Washington, and at high altitudes struck currents that reveal a danger lest Mr. Harding's 1920 campaign pledges become an election issue in 1924, occasioning a rift in Republican ranks...
...hard to see what good will result if the skull of Pocahontas is dug up from a quiet resting place at Gravesend. The site of Troy may well reveal historical secrets. Luxor may give up relies, and the buried city of Herculaneum may contain valuable manuscripts yet undiscovered. There is still plenty of chance for further archacologizing. But why should a man wish to dig up his supposed ancestors! If it be merely to test the efficacy of the curse to fall on the desecrator of her grave, he might well wait until Sir Conan Doyle has definitely proved...