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Word: eugenist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pamphlet Mrs. Dennett advised youths "to understand the wonderful sex organs, that are different in men and women, what each part is for and how it works." She described the male and female genital apparatus in main detail, with illustrations by Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, gynecologist and eugenist. She told of ovulation. She described insemination. She wrote: "Don't let any one drag you into nasty talk or thought about sex. It is not a nasty subject." She mentioned the two terrible sexual diseases. She concluded with: "The physical side of love is the intensely intimate part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Sex Side of Life | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Author Wiggam, a picturesque eugenist, has a propensity for digging into the modern discoveries of biology, explaining them to the lay reader in colorful prose, hopefully adding the wonders that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Picturesque Eugenics | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...rejuvenated" by a new water-flooding process which has been demonstrated practically in the fields of Bradford, McKeesport and Murraysville, Pa. In time the wells may refill and produce several times the quantity originally furnished. At Houston, Tex., the process was described by Roswell H. Johnson, well-known eugenist and professor of oil and gas production in the University of Pittsburgh, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Engineers. The water is let into an old well; it spreads out through the saturated oil sands and shales, driving the oil ahead to other wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rejuvenation | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...objects of the association are: "To correlate the work of the labor leader, capitalist, psychologist, sociologist, eugenist, and all other persons or groups interested in maintaining the health of the people, and to bring about a closer co-operation betwen the clergy and the medical profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Doctor and Minister | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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