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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York gave us our tolerance, Pennsylvania our faith in justice, the South our proud independence, the Middle West our practical realism, the Far West our belief in the impossible. Spice all this with a flavor of cynicism and humanitarianism from the Jews, humor and hotheadedness from the Irish, sex and sophistication from the French and sentimentality and love of comfort from the old-fashioned Germans, and you have a rough outline of essential Americanism. It is a lot bigger than anything that ever happened in poor little New England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...teaching has attracted enough expatriate English literary men to create a minor but noteworthy literary movement. Novelist Aldous Huxley, ultra-sophisticate of the 1920s, studied privately with the swami. His latest novel, Time Must Have a Stop, bears the marks of his study. Erudite Philosopher Gerald Heard (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity), son of an Anglican churchman and a professed agnostic since youth, was another private pupil. Like slick Manhattan Dramatist John van Druten, (Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama), both contribute to the society's magazine Vedanta and the West, now co-edited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Universal Cult | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...Sex among the Animalcules. Less than 1/125th of an inch long and shaped like the sole of a lady's slipper, Paramecium bursaria or the slipper animalcule is a comparatively large member of the class Infusoria-a family of hairy, one-celled animals that swarm in lily ponds, goldfish bowls, and even in water glasses on the best dining tables. Paramecium, because of its size and fecundity (two generations a day), is a favorite subject for the study of unicellular life. Dr. Jennings, whose private laboratory is cluttered with his favorite "critters," believes they also provide important keys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ah, Sweet Mystery | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Through careful observation of more than 10,000 "clones" (detached families) of paramecia, conducted with Winchellian zest and godlike detachment, Dr. Jennings has concluded that paramecia's mating is dependent on sex and that their choice of a mate has important bearing on the character of their descendants. "They behave," he explains, "a lot like humans. This one here, now. He was an exconjugant of first cousins. He's no account. Oh, but say, here's a good healthy one. His sex life is really something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ah, Sweet Mystery | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...infinitesimal incest have yielded valuable hints on the effects of human inbreeding. Last summer they also led the scientist to a surprising discovery. In his efforts to mate various cells of one variety of paramecium, he discovered evidence that the paramecia are divided into no less than eight sexes. Unable to determine the physiological differences between them, he has found proof that each sex will mate cheerfully with any one of the other seven, but rigidly eschews homosexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ah, Sweet Mystery | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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