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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter of months, or a few years at the most, pills, teas, inoculation, etc. of various forms will be available for use in a variety of ways. The prospects are that fertility-control methods to fit every need and every purse will become available. Indeed, it seems likely that sex and reproduction will in reality become effectively separated." ¶Because normal liver tissue seemed sensitive to X rays, doctors hesitated to treat liver cancer with radiation, and such cases were considered hopeless. At Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases, 36 patients dying of cancers that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, may 4, 1953 | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

Much of this material needlessly piles extra melodrama on the movie's sufficiently melodramatic subject so that the picture at times almost collapses from its own plot weight. Director & Co-Author Giuseppi (Bitter Rice) De Santis also injects an extraordinary amount of sex appeal into his picture, notably by having the better part of the 200 attractive accident victims strewed about on the collapsed staircase in various states of fetching disarray. But underneath all this excessive color, the picture has a hard bedrock of realism that props it up dramatically: it is an earnest, often eloquent indictment of social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 4, 1953 | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...Committee found no reasons for children being segregated because of difference of sex, of economic, social, and ethnic backgrounds, or of vocational aspirations. It emphasised the importance of early schooling in understanding between people of different backgrounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education Group Asks Revision of Boston's Schools | 4/24/1953 | See Source »

...Medical definition: one who has a "morbid desire to dress in the clothing of the opposite sex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Christine | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...Culture President of the United States," but Mary blanched at the thought of becoming known as the "Constantly Pregnant First Lady." She had borne him four daughters under the "no-doctors" rules of Macfadden birthmanship, and now he felt that four sons (conceived by following the Macfadden rules of sex determination) would nicely round off "The Perfect Family." Mary obliged with three and then rebelled. The Prophet of Physical Culture gave her a long, hard look and pronounced the terrible final words: "Woman, yon are no longer necessary to my success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with a Genius | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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