Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Dutchmen were downcast. They wanted a boy. In Manhattan thoughtful Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the tabloid Daily News got to thinking about this and about all the family headaches, royal crises, useless conversation and bad guesses caused by similar uncertainties throughout history. He told his staff to see what could be done to end them...
...with 2% or 3% bicarbonate of soda solution to get male offspring, with 1% or 2% lactic acid solution to get females, then mated them as quickly as possible. In forty-two litters since last July, Director Durfee has reported 100% success in predetermining the predominant sex. Rat A845 (see cut) was douched once with lactic acid and bore six females, two males. Then she was douched with bicarbonate and bore four males, two females...
...that Nature becomes to its victim nothing but blots and blurs." What sources his work had were in Renaissance pictures which he knew through his own large collection of prints. His masterwork, done after he was 50, consisted of pencil and watercolor illustrations such as The Temptation of Eve (see cut), magnificent engravings for the Book of Job and for The Divine Comedy...
Died. Colonel Frank Emerson De Long, 75, inventor of a hook-&-eye fastener ("See That Hump?"); of a heart attack; in Palm Beach...