Word: maling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another First. Dr. Choh Hao Li, 36-year-old Chinese-born University of California biochemist, reported success in isolating for the first time the sex hormone FSH (for follicle-stimulating hormone). In the female, FSH stimulates the growth of follicles in the ovary and makes ovulation possible; in the male, it stimulates tubules in the testes that produce sperm. Dr. Li isolated it from the pituitary glands of freshly killed sheep. Since other researchers were looking for it, too, Dr. Li says: "I was damn lucky. I hit on the right method." With the same sort of "luck...
...purse, one male added, has been attractive enough to lure a field of 15 to the starting gate. Only the weather man can stand in the way of this morning's classic, for the charge down the Wellesley hills is never run in the rain...
Mildred McAfee Horton, the track steward, uttered a warning to any male spectators who might misconstrue the purpose of the race. "This is not," said the polite Wellesleyite, "a claiming race...
...only one of its kind at the College, the Funsters' extravaganza offers prizes ranging up to champagne for the best male, best female, best couple, and best group. If past tradition is followed--and there seems little reason that it won't--a special prize will go to the least-dressed woman...
Yesterday's announcement was the latest in a series of ticket reforms that began two years ago when student agitation caused revision of the undergraduate seating plan. The old all-male cheering section was abolished in favor of mixed seating by class rating...