Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though some connection between light and sex was thus made obvious, Dr. Perry was not convinced that it was a case of cause and effect. Perhaps, he reasoned, the radiation first altered some factor in the diet, which then stimulated the pituitary and through it the sex mechanism. With this hypothesis in mind. Perry irradiated whole-wheat grains with ultraviolet light, fed them to his birds. That did the trick, whereas the sex glands of other birds which received the same (normal) illumination, but did not eat the irradiated, aphrodisiac wheat, remained in the "resting condition...
...Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Dr. Perry concluded: "This interpretation, which . . . shifts the emphasis from light affecting the animal to light producing a change in the diet, may well apply to the seasonal sexual development of other vertebrates as well.* The results . . . point to an increase of Vitamin D or some kindred substance as the specific dietary factor...
...International Astronomical Union in Stockholm last week, Dr. Shapley reported on 2,000 Cepheid variables (giant stars which fluctuate regularly in brightness) at considerable distances from the Milky Way's central plane. These have the effect of stretching the galaxy's "vertical" diameter to about 80,000 light-years.** The diameter across the disk is put at 100,000 lightyears. Thus, the flattish lens of the Milky Way is enclosed in a globe of stars, and the galaxy's total shape resembles a pumpkin...
...light-year equals about six trillion miles...
...Cincinnati, a fleeing thug boarded the automobile of 45-year-old Chinese Fred Wong, told him to step on it. Wong would not go against a red light, though the burglar beat him with the butt of his gun. Police captured the wrongdoer, congratulated Wong. Wong said sheepishly: "I was afraid of being arrested for crashing a light...