Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there at times as many as 180 live tarantulas, whose dark, hairy backs he is fond of stroking (see cut). His 30-odd works on arachnology include a description of the internal anatomy of 92 spider species, reports on spiders' circulatory systems, psychology, sex life...
...years. Parents get their teacher-training from Calvert manuals, which are almost parent-proof. Though some find pedagogy tough going, most of their pupils do very well. Mothers with kindergarten children get instructions on how to teach, play games, punish, tell stories, test intelligence, deal with lefthandedness, lying, disobedience, sex problems, how to develop morals, neatness, courtesy, concentration, imagination. Sample instruction: "Obedience ... is the first requisite for ... proper instruction . . . the first habit to be inculcated. . . . Both willingness and ability [to obey] may be made a habit . . . the child should never be allowed to argue, dispute or question orders...
...town-planning and slum clearance in Edinburgh. Because he believed that Scotland owed a great debt to Hindu philosophy, Geddes taught hygiene and town-planning in India for ten years. He was "one of the fathers of modern geography," and author of such classic studies as The Evolution of Sex, Chapters in Modern Botany. The essential condition of man, Geddes used to say, is that man is "always attempting the impossible and achieving it." Intellectual Cement Tester. Young Mumford decided to be a Renaissance man, too. So he got a job as an investigator in the dress and waist industry...
...Testosterone propionate, a male sex hormone preparation, has been tried by German Exile Dr. Eric Fels (now in Buenos Aires) on three women far gone with breast cancer. The hormone improved all three cancer patients. One bedridden woman with a cancer that had spread to her bones was able to get up out of bed, now plays ping-pong every day. There is some recalcification of the thin spots in her bones. She still harbors cancer cells, but healthy fibrous tissue is growing among them...
...Another old favorite explanation was that the News was loaded up with 'cheesecake'; that is, leg art, and hot sexy stuff that titillated the morons. We don't overplay sex, and haven't for years...