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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critics and literary historians, Emily Dickinson is regarded as the one unquestionable genius among American woman poets. She is also, the question of sex being waived as irrelevant to art, one of the four or five most remarkable American poets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dickinson Collection Donated to Houghton | 5/31/1950 | See Source »

There is no sex, there are no crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

Once the embryo has entered the uterus (see above), it is still nine months before anyone knows for sure what sex it will be. Doctors have not had much luck at predicting; tossing a coin has proved as good a test as any ("Heads it's a boy; tails it's a girl"). At the gynecological congress, Belgium's Dr. Pierre A. Rosa told of a surefire test discovered by accident during some research on the placenta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Got a Nickel? | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...amnion ("bag of waters") in which they are carried. After the seventh month, a girl baby sloughs off distinctive cells like those from the genitalia of an adult woman. By puncturing the bag of waters late in pregnancy, draining off a little fluid, and staining the cells, the sex of 25 babies was foretold with accuracy at the University of Brussels' Laboratory for Experimental Gynecology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Got a Nickel? | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...College group should be able to have whomsoever it pleases among its members so long as its has 50 percent among is members to Harvard men to keep its Harvard name. Neither the College nor Radcliffe need fear domination of its undergraduate groups by members of the other sex; no organization would be forced to admit people it did not want. Surely students in groups at Harvard and Radcliffe are nature enough to know whether they are being dominated or not and when to form their own organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women and the Dean | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

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