Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to the Decker place and in a sharecropper cabin I found the woman chained to a bed with a trace chain locked around her neck. She had been there several days. She had been fed well and other than being chained apparently had not been harmed. I ordered the woman unchained and took her and Wiggin off the farm...
...young woman with extraordinary ears -definitely cup-shaped instead of reasonably flat-recently presented herself for examination at Chicago's Lying-in Hospital. She wanted to know whether, if she married, her children would inherit ears like hers. She had three brothers and one sister with similar cupped ears, three brothers and three sisters with normal ears. Speaking for all eleven she asked whether they were going to pass on the embarrassing abnormality to their children...
Delighted with the co-operation of such an intelligent subject, Edith Louise Potter of Lying-In's staff investigated the family history, presented her findings last week in the Journal oj Heredity. Five generations of the inquiring young woman's family had the abnormal ears-mother, grandfather, great-grandmother, great-great-grand-father. The lop-eared patriarch had 91 descendants, of whom 21 inherited his ears. Everyone affected had both ears affected. In this cup-eared family the earmark skipped no generation. Those who had the defect had a certain number of similar children. But those who escaped...
When Zoologist Powell, who teaches in the University of Nebraska, realized that lobelessness was being bred out of his family, he started an investigation. He found that one of Mrs. Powell's brothers married a lobeless woman. All their children had lobes. Zoologist Powell's lobeless brother also married a lobeless woman. Their children had no ear lobes. Therefore, he reasoned, free ear lobes are dominant characters, adherent lobes are recessive, intermarriage eliminates lobeless ears...
...left represents Victory and Death, the soldier in the center clasping Victory in his right arm and Death in his left. The mural on the right represents the coming of the Americans to Europe. The woman with the blue gown in the foreground symbolizes France, while the woman behind her with the broken sword represents Belgium, and the third woman, with the helm, Britain...