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...report is also expected to indicate that women do not reach the peak of their sexual drive until about the age of 29 (in men it occurs in the upper teens), that higher education tends to inhibit women sexually, and that there is a slightly higher percentage of homosexuality among women than among...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kinsey Report on Women: Education Bodes No Good | 4/27/1950 | See Source »

...entering a long period of stress. They must cope with vast economic and technological problems, with provincial and local dissidents. If the U.S. recognizes the Red regime, it could maintain consular posts to observe the difficulties and possibly encourage opposition. Also, the presence of U.S. diplomats would tend to "inhibit" Russian moves to strengthen the Russian grip on China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: Toward Recognition | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...cancer fighters gained another inch or so in their Sisyphean progress? Much work remained to be done before anyone could be sure. Said Warburg, after discussing the action of the anti-enzyme: "It must now be found out by experiment whether such an anti-enzyme will inhibit the growth of tumors in the human body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Continuing War | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...succeed as I did, I feel sure. In 1910, after an attack lasting several days, I determined to end the nuisance in future by bringing the diaphragm under direct control of the will. During future attacks, as I felt the recurrent spasms coming, I concentrated my will power to inhibit it. This entailed an exhausting struggle worse than hiccups, but it was successful . . . When I find I am hiccuping I simply stop, just as I would stop twiddling my watch chain, for instance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...explosive) man. An intellectual's intellectual, he nevertheless lectures and preaches with the angular arm-swinging of a revivalist. An orthodox Protestant, he is one of the busiest of leftist working politicians-a member of the Liberal party. For his gloomy view of man and history does not inhibit hL belief that man should act for what he holds to be the highest good (always bearing in mind that sin will dog his action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faith for a Lenten Age | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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