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Word: secretion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacks on scientists for unorthodox ideas have disappeared from the academy's monthly magazine, Vestnik. The cry of "cosmopolitanism" is no longer heard, and President Nesmeyanov himself has declared that "internationalism is a specific of science." On this all scientists would agree. Except for what is military and secret, a scientific advance for one nation is an advance for all. As for the party's former insistence on practical results, Nesmeyanov simply turned the tables on the West. It is capitalism, not socialism, said he, "that places science within the framework of practicalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Brahmins of Redland | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...point he clapped the orchestra to silence and commented: "One group played their eighth notes too fast; did you spot it?" The contestant thought that it was the second violins. "To my ear," said Steinberg, "it was the violas, but I did not want to let out the secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Are You a Windmill? | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...mean by that, Mrs. Sprague?" bears directly on this issue. The lady fears sex. She sees all men as potentially sexual creatures, and confuses this fear with the rabbits who so flagrantly violate her moral standards. The psychiatrist himself becomes a rabbit, for he shares with the beast the secret of sex. He speaks the dark words men hope to hear yet fear to utter. The fear of self-knowledge which inhibits Americans renders the successor of Freud a figure of subconscious sexual dislike--hence a rabbit...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Bunny Hop | 5/28/1958 | See Source »

Debrett's knew a secret. Its editor, C. F. Hankinson, had discovered an amended birth certificate that transformed sister Laura Maude into brother Laurence Michael. Newsmen last week found the doctor himself at Philadelphia, aboard the British freighter, City of Bath, on which he serves as medical officer. Bearded, pipe-smoking Dr. Dillon explained that he was a victim of hypospadias, that he had sensed in his teens he was different from other girls, and that his voice "became deeper than a female's but higher than a male's" when he was 20. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Change of Heir | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Outside, the handful of escort police hung back. Brutally manhandled by vengeful mobs after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, they seemed afraid to tackle bloodthirsty civilians again. One U.S. Secret Service man threw himself across the back window of Nixon's car to protect it from stones and clubs. Others pulled at a stubborn student lying under the car's front wheels. The howling mob tried to overturn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: The Guests of Venezuela | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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