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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shatzky hopes the Freud collection will be the nucleus of a select library on psychoanalysis. Analyst Abraham Arden Brill, who translated Freud into faithfully wooden English, has already donated funds for the library, as well as a fine collection of 20 volumes on the history of sex practices. Several other psychiatrists have promised to will their valuable Freudiana to the library. Says Dr. Shatzky, with Freud in his eye, "I can't wait that long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brands from the Burning | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...based on a novel by R. E. Spencer, produced by Guthrie Mc-Clintic) relates the dreadful events in "the upstairs sitting room of the Garvis home," a ponderous, gloomy Victorian chamber. Here three weird maiden sisters -one of them an unspeakable witch in a bathrobe-live in apparently acute sex frustration with their widowed, musical sister-in-law and her daughter. Finally the last of the weirds, afraid of becoming more so, decides to burn the house down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...least 2,500 years, man has tried to control the sex of his offspring. In 1932, Dr. Felix Unterberger of Konigsberg, Germany pointed out that semen is normally slightly alkaline, and the female vaginal tract acid. In some marriages, he said, an unusually alkaline semen produces a preponderance of boys, a strongly acid vaginal tract a majority of girls. Sex of children should be controlled, then, by adjusting the acid balance of the vagina. After some animal experiments, Dr. Unterberger tried the method on humans, claimed to have "determined" the birth of 74 boys. His method: mild vaginal douches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baking-Soda Boys | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the Manhattan tabloid Daily News, got interested in sex determination. He hired a couple of scientists, set them to work in an old laboratory douching rats and rabbits. For two years the News has issued bulletins on the sex of its baby rats. Alleged rate of success: 75%. Last month, Professor Elmer Roberts of the University of Illinois, working independently of the News, announced that he had predetermined the sex of 1,800 rats. At the same time, Dr. Leon Jacob Cole of the University of Wisconsin reported that, with his rats and rabbits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baking-Soda Boys | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...doctors find it hard to take the baking soda seriously. Fortnight ago, Captain Patterson hailed a young couple in The Bronx, Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Hamton, who tried lactic acid and baking soda douches, and got what they ordered: first a girl, then a boy. The Daily News's Sex Control Editor" was forthwith deluged with letters and phone calls, answered cautiously that he could give no specific instructions for human beings. Captain Patterson couldn't be sure that the Hamtons hadn't been plain lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baking-Soda Boys | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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