Word: maleness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the last three years the physical stature of incoming students has greatly improved, the reason for which Fradd thinks lies in the fact that the system of corrective exercises, adopted at many colleges, male and female, has also been taken up in a large number of preparatory schools, to which reports on graduates are sent each year by the Department...
...award in Chemistry (deferred from last year) went to Professor Richard Kuhn of Berlin, who isolated Vitamin B 2 (also called lactoflavin or riboflavin). The 1939 award in Chemistry was divided between Professor Adolf Butenandt, also of Berlin, and Professor Leopold Ruzicka of Zurich. Butenandt isolated the male sex hormone, androsterone, and Ruzicka first synthesized it from the fat of sheep's wool...
...lunch club, the Algonquin Hotel, had waked up one morning to find itself famous, and celebrity-chasers flocked there, as to a play, to observe Kaufman. Connelly, Broun, Woollcott, Benchley, Dorothy Parker, F.P.A. & Co. at lunch, and to hear their laughter, though not what gave rise to it. The male members enhanced their glamor by forming the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club, whose legendary sessions, devoted to poker and wisecracks, F.P.A. reported in his column...
Beatrice Fisher '40, blonde senior from Dover, N. H., will break precedent when she leads her band down the stadium gridiron on Soldiers Field. Miss Fisher was previously replaced by a male leader this year, but she has been reinstated for the Harvard game...
Normally the male spermatozoon is what determines the sex of the offspring. If the spermatozoon has a male-determining chromosome pattern in its nucleus, the sex will be male; if not, female. Since there was no spermatozoon in the case of the fatherless rabbit, therefore no male-determining pattern, the Pincus rabbit is a female. She seems to be perfectly normal. Mated to an ordinary buck, she produced a normal litter. These bunnies are the first in rabbit history with no maternal grandfather...