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TOTechnical Order
TOTable of Organization
TOTime Out
TOTop Offer
TOTotal Order
TOTravel Order
TOTrade Order
TOTravel Orders
TOTechnical Organization
TOTrade Option
TOTransfer Order
TOTheater Of Operations
TOToronto, Ontario
TOTop Opened (can collectors)
TOTask Order
TOTreat Official
TOTraining Officer
TOTitle Officer
TOTransportation Officer
TOTechnical Officer
TOTask Organization
TOTonga (top level domain)
TOTelephone Operator
TOTrain Operator (NYC Transit Authority)
TOTransmission Owner (power industry)
TOTraining Objective
TOTerminal Objective
TOToe (of bank; surveying)
TOTelecommunications Outlet
TOTurn-On
TOTogo
TOTake Over (Internet Relay Chat)
TOTactical Operations
TOTurnover (basketball)
TOThousand Oaks (California)
TOThe Offspring (band)
TOTransfer Orbit
TOTelegraph Office
TOTennessee Oncology (Nashiville, TN)
TOTangible Object
TOToaster Oven (Gamefaqs message board)
TOTurn Over
TOTerrell Owens (football player)
TOTanki Online
TOTakeoff
TOTicked Off
TOTocantins (Brazil)
TOTransverse Optical
TOTorstai (Finnish: Thursday)
TOTraditional Orthography
TOTorino - Turin (Piemonte, Italy)
TOTocharian (linguistics)
TOTactics Ogre (PSX game)
TOTycoon Online (game)
TOTruncated Octahedron
TOTheatre Ontario
TOTimestamp Ordering
TOTracking Offset
TOTactical Ops mod (Unreal Tournament)
TOTractor Overseas (Ferguson tractors built under license in America)
TOTraverse-Optic
TOCentral Imagery Tasking Office (CITO) (NIMA)
TOTransistor Outline Metal-Can Package
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References in classic literature
A much more important rule, which I think may be trusted, is that, at whatever period of life a peculiarity first appears, it tends to appear in the offspring at a corresponding age, though sometimes earlier.
This point, if it could be cleared up, would be interesting; if, for instance, it could be shown that the greyhound, bloodhound, terrier, spaniel, and bull-dog, which we all know propagate their kind so truly, were the offspring of any single species, then such facts would have great weight in making us doubt about the immutability of the many very closely allied and natural species--for instance, of the many foxes--inhabiting different quarters of the world.
The offspring from the first cross between two pure breeds is tolerably and sometimes (as I have found with pigeons) extremely uniform, and everything seems simple enough; but when these mongrels are crossed one with another for several generations, hardly two of them will be alike, and then the extreme difficulty, or rather utter hopelessness, of the task becomes apparent.
Why, I said, the principle has been already laid down that the best of either sex should be united with the best as often, and the inferior with the inferior, as seldom as possible; and that they should rear the offspring of the one sort of union, but not of the other, if the flock is to be maintained in first-rate condition.
The proper officers will take the offspring of the good parents to the pen or fold, and there they will deposit them with certain nurses who dwell in a separate quarter; but the offspring of the inferior, or of the better when they chance to be deformed, will be put away in some mysterious, unknown place, as they should be.
Any one above or below the prescribed ages who takes part in the public hymeneals shall be said to have done an unholy and unrighteous thing; the child of which he is the father, if it steals into life, will have been conceived under auspices very unlike the sacrifices and prayers, which at each hymeneal priestesses and priest and the whole city will offer, that the new generation may be better and more useful than their good and useful parents, whereas his child will be the offspring of darkness and strange lust.
And we grant all this, accompanying the permission with strict orders to prevent any embryo which may come into being from seeing the light; and if any force a way to the birth, the parents must understand that the offspring of such an union cannot be maintained, and arrange accordingly.
Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.
The researchers examined the offspring of mice that performed 60 minutes of moderate intensity exercise every morning during pregnancy.
Importantly, exercise was found to change the genetic expression of the father's sperm that suppresses poor dietary effects and transfer to the offspring, the researchers noted in the paper published in the journal Diabetes.
Colorado Springs, CO, July 28, 2018 --(PR.com)-- The Offspring is a gripping narrative filled with convoluted schemes and a secret that destroyed so many lives.
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