Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United Family. Tapeworms have no personality, and folk tales about long-established worms that grow to be intimate friends of their human hosts are not based on fact. But tapeworms do have a talent of sorts: their strange and ingenious way of perpetuating their species. Some tapeworms are almost microscopic; others may be more than 100 ft. long. They are all following the same basic way of life. The adult consists of a "head" (scolex) that clings with hooks and suckers to the host's intestine. Below the head is a short neck that grows continually and differentiates into...
...seven years during the late '20s and early '30s, the high-stepping bay seldom knew defeat in the show ring. When she did lose, she was always in double harness, her talent slowed by a teammate. Going through her paces alone, she had no peer. All told, the "Million Dollar Hackney Mare" won about $25,000 in prize money, including $2,800 worth of silver plate and a trophy room full of cups and ribbons. Crowds cheered her entry into show rings as if she were Sarah Bernhardt...
...Colonial Americans to a sampling of just about every living Texas painter and sculptor. But the standout exhibit is the handsome tribute, co-sponsored by Houston's Museum of Fine Arts and Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, to France's three Du-champ brothers, whose talent and eccentricities make the family one of the oddest phenomenons of 20th century...
...fierce competition for talent, businessmen try every trick to find and keep good secretaries. In Chicago, Prudential Insurance Co. even puts its young girl employees to work recruiting their friends, rewards them with one day off (with pay) for each catch. In New York, once a girl agrees to sign up, she may get as much as $70 a week just to come in and learn to be a secretary, can make up to $100 a week when she completes her training, twice what a seasoned secretary got ten years ago. In sprawling Los Angeles some businessmen tack...
...anyone knows who has ever been blackjacked on the vulnerable emotions by a Highland piper, the Scots have a talent for misery second only to that of the Irish themselves...