This illustrated pamphlet promoted the life and marriage of Charles Stratton, known as Tom Thumb, and Lavinia Warren, two "human curiosities" (1)__________ by P. T. Barnum at the American Museum. Barnum’s active promotion made first Stratton and then Warren celebrities, and their February 10, 1863, wedding, including the lavish gifts given to them by socially prominent New Yorkers, received breathless (2)_________ from the press. The pamphlet, probably sold at the American Museum and elsewhere, details the lives, courtship, and wedding of Stratton and Warren and includes lengthy (3)___________ from newspaper articles about their wedding.
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If you have Tourette syndrome, you make unusual movements or sounds, called tics. You have little or no control over them. Common tics are throat-clearing and blinking. You may repeat words, spin, or, rarely, blurt out swear words. Tourette syndrome is a (4)_______________ of the nervous system. It often occurs with other problems, such as Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Anxiety, and Depression. The cause of Tourette syndrome is unknown. It is more common in boys than girls. The tics usually start in childhood and may be worse in the early teens. Many people eventually (5)_________ them. No treatment is needed unless the tics (6)___________ with everyday life. Excitement or worry can make tics worse. Calm, focused activities may make them better. Medicines and speech therapy may also help.
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(7)__________ under the weight of the packs, sweating, they climbed steadily in the pine forest that covered the mountainside. There was no trail that the young man could see, but they were working up and around the (8)________ of the mountain and now they crossed a small stream and the old man went steadily on ahead up the edge of the rocky stream bed. The climbing now was (9)___________ and more difficult, until finally the stream seemed to drop down over the edge of a smooth granite ledge that rose above them and the old man waited at the foot of the ledge for the young man to come up to him.
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I believe that you will find the following to be remarkably relevant to my argument. It was mailed to my address in a jiffy (10)_________ bag not more than a month after I had gotten A Cerebral Flight published. My head was filled with a farrago of competing sounds, sights, and scents. I heard John Schloss singing, "Ask any vegetable, and the chances are good..." I saw Laney with his sword, and (11)__________ the aroma of the sea at Soya Point. Of course, the connection might be purely circumstantial. Anybody could have sent me this Algernon's Journal. But why the anonymity? Is there someone out there who wants me to think that a (12)________ from Alpha Flight has come back from oblivion? Is this a cute, literary prank?
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Sure, they’re awesomely delicious, but beyond the sweetness, Girl Scout Cookies are an opportunity for girls to do extraordinary things. When you make a Girl Scout Cookie purchase, you’re helping the next (13)___________ of girl entrepreneurs get an important taste of what it takes to be successful—teamwork, planning, and a positive outlook. (14)__________ from your purchase stay local and help power new experiences for her and every awesome G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™ who sells Girl Scout Cookies! Whether it’s a trip she’ll never forget, a service project that will change her community forever, or the (15)______________ to build a lifetime of memories at camp, Girl Scout Cookies help make it all happen!
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the (16)_____________ that you’ve had.” He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and (17)________ itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was (18)_________ to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
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The wreck sleeps in darkness, a (19)_____________ of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the North Atlantic seabed. Fungi feed on it. Weird colorless life-forms, unfazed by the (20)___________ pressure, prowl its jagged ramparts. From time to time, beginning with the discovery of the wreck in 1985 by Explorer-in-Residence Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel, a robot or a manned (21)______________ has swept over Titanic’s gloomy facets, pinged a sonar beam in its direction, taken some images—and left.
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