Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Felix. Kipling, with a sharper eye for the facts, called Aden "a barrick-stove." It is one of the hottest, most forlorn spots in the British Empire, of which it became a part just a century ago. Its acquisition as Queen Victoria's first colony made the young virgin Queen very happy. She, the Romans and Aden's Governor, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly, who says he likes his rock-ribbed home, share their felicity virtually alone...
Prolactin caused chickless hens and virgin rats to mother chicks and ratlets with great affection. This earned prolactin the nickname of "mother love" hormone. The implication of the discovery was that mother love, though doubtless fortified and colored in women by training and tradition has a physiological basis in a chemical substance-probably large protein molecules. (Dr. Riddle found that prolactin and other front-lobe hormones are disintegrated by trypsin, an enzyme which has the special property of "digesting" proteins...
Died. Robert Herrick, 70, veteran novelist of departed social issues (The Memoirs of an American Citizen, Together, The Master of the Inn), onetime (1905-23) professor of English at the University of Chicago, Government secretary of the Virgin Islands since 1935; of a heart attack; in Charlotte Amalie...
...Enland trails, unless you're one of the first ten men on the trail alter a snowfall, you have to ski on beaten or hard packed snow. Over there if you don't like the beaten track, you can go off into virgin snow...
Swiss Have Virgin Snow...