Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monkeys. When they took their subjects off to their separate laboratories many a monkey friendship was broken up. Not so with the doctors; outside their laboratories they discussed their respective work. In one of their discussions they reasoned thus: Dr. Engle was studying pituitary hormones, which can stimulate early sex maturity. Dr. Jungeblut was studying infantile paralysis, which usually occurs before sex maturity. Might there be some connection between pituitary hormones and infantile paralysis? Why not combine their studies? The monkeys at least would thank them. Jeremiah Milbank's International Committee for the Study of Infantile Paralysis furnished...
...half old, the age which compares with the most susceptible period in children. Then they injected infantile paralysis virus into the monkeys. Some of the monkeys had passing attacks of paralysis, others did not catch it at all. But all of them grew up suddenly, acquired the sex maturity of three-year-old monkeys. Those not treated with pituitary hormones usually developed paralysis from the virus, died. Drs. Jungeblut & Engle concluded that pituitary hormones, not immunity through exposure (the general theory), enable most adults to resist infantile paralysis...
Like many other stage plays converted to the screen, this production has a vigorous, staccato dialogue to atone for its lack of pictorial beauty. The smaller parts are on the whole excellently played. We like particularly Oscar Apfel as Editor Hinchcliffe. He regarded the words "scandal", "sex", and "sensational" with squeamishness; preferred saying "human interest...
What Do You Know About Sex? What Kind of Girl Will You Marry? "A man should know all he really wishes to know about sex, and then forget it as much as possible. . . . No one needs to be afraid of sex. . . . [Sexual] adjustment of some sort will be necessary. . . . Every couple should learn methods of birth control which will permit them to consummate their love without the necessity of having children...
Concentration of the Russian peoples' thoughts on the Five-Year Plan is tending to make Russians less sex-conscious than other peoples...