Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with delight and astonishment. For this reason, a wide interest attaches itself to a research begun last week by the University of California. Learned faculty members planned to assemble 500 pairs of twins and to study, with the utmost care, the details of their likenesses or their dissimilarities. A similar research has been announced by the University of Chicago...
...lower animals rarely indulge in this form of biological sport, with the exception of the Texas armadillo* which reproduces regularly in this way. It bears four young of the same sex, having a common set of embryonic membranes, strikingly similar in general configuration, all coming from a single egg. Thus they parallel as quadruplets the conditions of human identical twins. Exactly what causes the egg to divide is not definitely known. Dr. Horatio H. Newman, zoologist at the University of Chicago, has patiently pursued simpler species in the hope of finding a clue. After sacrificing several starfish he has shown...
Psychological. Obviously twinship need have no mental effect on fraternal twins other than the general effect of being the same age and subject to similar environment...
Last week Mr. Bowman, as president of another company (Bowman Management, Inc.), made a deal with Mr. Bobo to operate hotels that Mr. Bobo is building in Lowell, Mass., New Brunswick, N. J., White Plains, N. Y., Jersey City, N. J., Yonkers, N. Y., and will build in similar communities throughout the country...
...Bremen, a silver flash in the air, is a low-winged, single-motored Junkers machine similar to those used in passenger and freight service on the Lufthansa lines. She has a 310 h.p. motor and cruises best at a speed of 95 to 100 miles an hour...