Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovered, is parthenogenetic, i.e., capable of producing offspring all by herself. In the last year, Hamilton has raised four generations of female Schistocerca in specially built hutches on the hospital roof. Regularly, his succeeding generations of females, without male help, have produced and laid their eggs deep in the sand of their hutches. All their offspring are female locusts...
...thorough but wooden in his Charles Dickens. But there were better things to come. One was an excellent first volume of a definitive biography of Sigmund Freud by a distinguished British disciple, Dr. Ernest Jones. Biographer Andre Maurois published his best book, Leila, about man-eating French Novelist George Sand. In The Traitor and the Spy, James Thomas Flexner took a careful historical look at Benedict Arnold and Major John Andre in a book rich in excitement and scholarship. Irving Brant finished the fourth volume of his massive James Madison, which may yet (one more volume to come) turn...
...solemn summary, the American Football Coaches Association counted the year's cost in lives: five in high-school football, two in college football (at Boston U. and Nebraska's Midland College), two in athletic clubs and one in a sand-lot game...
...made by his father to ride bareback and walk the blistering desert rocks barefoot each midday to toughen himself for a career of revenge against the enemies of his line. At 20, he set out at the head of his Wahabi tribesmen to regain the sand and oases that had been wrested from his illustrious forebears, the Sauds, by the House of Rashid...
...forbade smoking, drinking and even non-Moslem churches among the foreigners who came to draw his oil, he nevertheless took to modern inventions like a child let loose in Toyland, eventually had his palaces festooned with telephones and radios, his courtyards teeming with fleets of automobiles, including 20 sand-proof, peek-proof Cadillacs, equipped with electric fans, and a mahogany-paneled trailer, which boasts a throne room. He also acquired a DC-4, built to accommodate his custom-made wheel chair...