Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin to list all the women he had taken to wife, but back in 1927, the dossier showed more than 40 marriages. Finally caught up, Confidence Man Engel was willing to reveal a few professional secrets of the widow racket. Among them: always be a gentleman-subordinate sex; send red roses, not orchids; always give the impression you have lots of money. "I'm a parlay player," said Engel. "I always made it a practice to spend on Mabel what I got from Jane . . . Don't forget that all these women were trying to take...
...Ministry of Truth's most trusted forgers; he had always flung himself heart & soul into the falsification of government statistics. And Party-Member Julia was outwardly so goodthinkful (naturally orthodox) that, after a brilliant girlhood in the Spies, she became active in the Junior Anti-Sex League and was snapped up by Pornosec, a subsection of the government Fiction Department that ground out happy-making pornography for the masses. In short, the grim, grey London Times could not have been referring to Winston and Julia when it snorted contemptuously: "Old-thinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc," i.e., "Those whose ideas were formed...
...Sex Life of an Amoeba...
Professor L. R. Cleveland is more interested in the sex life of smaller animals, minute protozoa that live in the bodies of insects. Usually the amoebae reproduce by splitting in half, but inside insects they find a chemical that changes them into males and females...
That's why the protozoa lives there. By reproducing sexually they get new gene structure in their offspring, and can improve biologically. The whole subject throws light on how sex began...