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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Merry-Go-Round." The more inventive Nazi guards at Buchenwald, according to the White Paper, have a game they play with prisoners and trees: "If only a slight offense has been committed, the prisoners would be bound to a tree in such a way that they stood facing it and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: White Paper, Black Deeds | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

A scientist who tricks Nature-for sound scientific reasons-is bushy-thatched Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus, formerly of Harvard, now of Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) Some years ago Dr. Pincus accomplished the first fertilization of mammalian ova in vitro-a polite way of saying that conception took place in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pincogenesis | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Pincus exhibited a further marvel-a fatherless rabbit, born from an ovum which had never encountered the male fertilizing element at all. This process, called parthenogenesis, occurs naturally among certain insects, has been artificially induced by man in sea urchins and frogs, but never before in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pincogenesis | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

As advertisers well know, women buy far more body deodorants than men do. Yet it is equally well known that, while women merely glow, the same occasions put men in a downright sweat. This damp fact has been experimentally confirmed by Dr. James Daniel Hardy and his co-workers at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Woman and Heat | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

* Female imperviousness to cold has also been attributed, in part, to the fortifying effect of female hormones.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Woman and Heat | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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