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...Recent research on such female sex hormones as theelin reveals that the corresponding male hormones are chemically almost identical. Normal men generate traces of female hormones, and vice versa. Thus, being male or female is not a matter of one element completely excluding the other, but rather of one ele ment dominating the other. If the domi nance is too weak to prevent confusion, the individual is a hermaphrodite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Change of Sex | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...lobbies signs show which elevators rise to certain heights. Starters are polite and intelligent. Cars stop precisely at floor levels. On each floor a light and a bell bring the tenant to the door of the ele- vator which will stop for him. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., which with Otis Elevator Co. leads in U. S. ele- vator research* now attaches photo-electric cells to elevators. These prevent elevator doors closing on passengers, allow the doors to close the instant the passenger safely enters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Elevation | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

Simba. In Hollywood, animal pictures are held by the higher actors and actresses in some disdain. It is not considered utterly artistic to be cast opposite an ele- phant, or a cassowary or even that mental giant of cinema artists, the police dog, But Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson, not essentially cinema performers, are free from the prejudice. Their actors are all animals, wild, and photographed in their native state in Africa. Mr. Johnson is a wanderer of some eminence, having at an earlier date been associated with Jack London on the cruise of the Snark in the role of cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 6, 1928 | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...will again leave his charges to their own devices to come to Cambride, but it is safe to say that he will await with more than ordinary interest the announcement of the clarion-voiced Eddie teling that "at the end of the se-cund pee-riud of the Yay-ele-Mary-land game, the sco-ere stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEW BIG GAMES TODAY TO WORRY CRIMSON PROPHET | 11/8/1924 | See Source »

...Story. When the self-important little excursion boats used to go puffing up and down the Hudson, back in the '60s, the hawkers there on used to sell descriptive pamphlets containing the item that on the river bank at Dobbs Ferry stands "the ele gant and commodious residence of Charles O. Gaar? the mansion sur rounded by 14 acres of beautifully decorated grounds and containing four bathrooms." As a result, during one battling week at boarding school, Gaar's 16-year -old son "Blacky" was "elegant" and " commodious," and a boy from Hartford made "a ribald sketch of him looped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sandoval* | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

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