Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This was passing the buck, perhaps rightly but certainly with neatness, to Mr. Churchill's immediate predecessor, Earl Stanhope...
...Crimson tasted pay dirt early in the game when Lo Withington scored on a line buck after a sustained first quarter march. Captain Hammy Wood made the score 7 to 0 as his kick safely split the uprights for the extra point...
...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 glass vessel. He took ova from a doe rabbit, sperm from a buck, mixed them in a culture flask, implanted the fertilized ova in another doe which, at term, produced a fine litter (TIME, March 12, 1934). Since then the scientist has been able, by skillful coddling, to keep fertilized ova alive for ten days in vitro before implantation in the mother...
...male-determining chromosome pattern in its nucleus, the sex will be male; if not, female. Since there was no spermatozoon in the case of the fatherless rabbit, therefore no male-determining pattern, the Pincus rabbit is a female. She seems to be perfectly normal. Mated to an ordinary buck, she produced a normal litter. These bunnies are the first in rabbit history with no maternal grandfather...
...high schools teach many things, but in most of them one subject is taboo -sex education. When Ellsworth B. Buck, a New York City School Commissioner, tried to break the taboo this year, he failed (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week the advocates of sex education tried again. This time they had the U. S. Government behind them...