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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the ages of 20 to 60, cancer incidence is higher in women, after that in men. Before 65, cancer in women usually originates in the reproductive organs (breast and genitals), after 65 in the digestive system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancerous Growth | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Hawkins will come back with Pete-Macky in the individual medley, which now includes four strokes--the breast as well as the butterfly. Ron Caldwell, who will also serve the Big Red in the opening relay, should provide worthy opposition...

Author: By Thomas Linden, | Title: Swimming Team Favored in Meet Against Big Red | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

Jorgensen and Fletcher Davis will enter the 440 for the Crimson. Hawkins, again, and Sigo Falk should handle the breast-stroke superiorly, as usual. Their event follows, rather than precedes, the 440 this year. This rearrangement removes the necessity of Jorgensen's swimming the grueling quarter and the free style relay in immediate sequence. Macky, Johnson, Lind, and Dyer will handle the final relay for Ulen themselves, however, Saturday

Author: By Thomas Linden, | Title: Swimming Team Favored in Meet Against Big Red | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

...which Fra Angelico yielded to the popular taste for the sentimental. The future glory of Fra Angelico's work is first declared in the Annunciation scene done for the church of San Domenico in Cortona (see p. 54). Here the Virgin sits serenely with hands folded across her breast in a gesture that sums up one of the great credos of monasticism: "Thy will be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Bearers of Gifts | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...descended from some remote aquatic ancestor of the elephant. Like elephants, they have tusks; like whales, they must rise to the surface to gulp in lungfuls of air. The female dugong's nipples are conspicuous and set forward; when suckling her calf, the mother clasps it to her breast with a flipper that bends at the elbow. At such moments, the head and shoulders of the dugong rise from the water in a vaguely human attitude. Many ichthyologists believe that this-and the fishlike tail the dugong displays when diving-led Greek and Arab seamen to bring back tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Original Mermaid | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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