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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...back. Sally is sweet, self-dramatizing, off love since it scorched her a week ago Tuesday. Because it is raining and he is tired and has no hotel room, Bill spends Friday night on the living-room couch. He stays Saturday night too. By Sunday morning the caterpillar of sex has become the butterfly of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 20, 1943 | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...method for checking prostatic cancer is once more in fashion. It was abandoned in the '90s because it did not cure, revived in the '30s because many doctors believe the temporary relief it offers is worth while. The operation is often supplemented by continuing doses of female sex hormones. Many patients refuse the treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prostatic Cancer | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...Sex Treatment. One hopeful alternative to castration is injections of female sex hormones (plus an operation on the prostate, if necessary). Like castration, female hormones seem to slow down the growth of cancer cells. Drs. Charles Cornell Herger and Hans Richard Sauer recently reported in the American Journal of Surgery that 30% of their patients getting stilbestrol (a female sex hormone) "responded with regression or softening of the prostate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prostatic Cancer | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...other hand, it is his contention that, during the days that intervene between high school and college, the youngsters become mature enough to ignore members of the opposite sex, even if they masquerade in some of the sweaters used in the Hollywood type colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Thinks Harvard Men Grown-up; Calls Them Immune to Co-ed Temptations | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels' "Girl with the Sex-Appeal Voice" turned up in Stockholm. Brita Brager, the 23-year-old daughter of a Swedish naval attache, had been one of the stars of the Propaganda Ministry's radio section. In October, for reasons which must have been satisfactory to the Nazis, she abruptly left her job. Home in Sweden, she was more petulant than contrite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swedish Nightingale | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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