Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commander Sigismund Levanevsky and his five companions, missing since their last faint wireless message flashed out August 13 as they were descending with one dead motor somewhere near the 48th meridian. No charge did Flyer Mattern make for his personal services because the same commander and the same crew rescued him from the Siberian Arctic four years...
Inter-House Crew Cup by G. R. Agasiz...
...Inter-House Sport Committees" are composed of the House managers of different sports and deal with the various details of the respective sports. This year the Inter-House Squash and Crew Committees had the greatest number of problems to discuss...
...true recipe for longevity," said Dr. F. A. E. Crew of University of Edinburgh, president of the zoology section, "is to be born a girl." Dr. Crew found informative reading matter in the British Statistical Review of the Registrar-General. In the tables for 1935 he found that in England and Wales 105.6 boys were born for every 100 girls. Of babies who died in the last three months of pregnancy there were 110 boys to 100 girls. And after birth the mortality rate at all ages was higher for males than for females. Thus although boys constituted a majority...
...characters are linked to the sex factor. Males manufacture two kinds of spermatozoa, one bearing a y-chromosome, the other an x-chromosome. If a y-chromosome spermatozoon happens to penetrate the female ovum, the get is a boy; if an x-chromosome, it is a girl. Thus Professor Crew reasoned the shorter life expectancy of the male seems to be carried on a gene or genes in the y-chromosome. By delicate manipulations, geneticists have had some success in separating male and female elements in mammalian sperm, opening the prospect of sex control in human reproduction-provided the parents...