Word: high
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none of the cats in the college comes from Alexander's alleys. All cats are bought from laboratory animal houses which supply with each purchase a family history and a listing of the animal's age, behavior, eating habits. Alexander, continued Dr. Slanetz, undersold his competitors, for high-class cat prices range from $1.25 to $1.50, depending on size...
...ended and the fun (and publicity) began. From New York City hurriedly flew Jack Kirkland, author of Tobacco Road, to be in at the kill. In Minneapolis crowds stormed the box office, rushed the theatre, packed its seats, clogged its aisles. While the audience waited, happy as clams at high tide, for the curtain to rise, Potter got more and more Jeetery backstage, needed the whole company to drape his rags about him, suffered trying to chaw plug-tobacco behind stage whiskers...
...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...
...Federal Public Health Service and Office of Education jointly issued a manual for teachers called High Schools and Sex Education. It was written by famed free-lance Educator Benjamin C. Gruenberg and J. L. Kaukonen of the Public Health Service. A similar manual, written by Dr. Gruenberg in 1922, got nowhere, but Surgeon General Thomas Parran, encouraged by his recent success in killing another taboo-discussion of venereal disease-had high hopes for this new campaign. Said he: "Many people see sex dimly through a mist-dangerous, but mysteriously attractive. . . . Modern psychology and medicine . . . have shown over and over again...
...authors of High Schools and Sex Education, lectures by school physicians on elementary facts of animal life (such as many schools provide) are not sex education. They believe that adolescents are more troubled by emotional, psychological, social and spiritual questions about sex than by the physical facts. Consequently, they recommended that sex education be distributed throughout the curriculum-in biology, hygiene, physical education, science, history, literature courses...