Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's interest in a topic long pigeonholed by science was spurred by a report that Eugenist Helen Spurway gave at University College in London. Among humans, she declared, virgin birth could not happen in the case of a hermaphrodite, who would not be self-fertile. However, parthenogenesis* might occur. This is the process by which an ovum begins to divide spontaneously, without having been fertilized by a sperm-perhaps after it has made up for the missing male chromosomes by a form of doubling. It is almost certain that the offspring of parthenogenesis would be a female, since...
...opening topic for the conference Tuesday will be "What should our schools accomplish?" This section will be outlined by subcommittee head James R. Killian, President of M.I.T., and Keppel, who served as a consultant for research on this topic...
...plan originated one day last summer when McCurdy was visiting some old friends of his: Vern Cox, cross country coach at Springfield College, and Dick Miller, the Washington and Lee mentor. Running soon became the main topic of conversation...
Bricker has been replaced by Congressman Albert P. Morano, Republican from Connecticut, who will deliver the keynote address on a new topic, the recognition of Communist China...
Thomson declared that "sitting at the meeting of the club presidents on the evening the topic was discussed, it was my distinct impression that not more than two out of ten groups, excluding the Young Republicans, would possibly defend the Amendment...