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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the courts and headlines are filled with "sex crimes," usually committed by "perverts," psychologists worry why such things happen, and what can be done to prevent them. Last week two Washington psychiatrists offered their findings and some suggestions in a bulky (702 pp.) book entitled Sexual Deviations (Linacre Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Abnormal | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Magazine racks around the Square cater to a wide range of student interests, offering reading that's not on the reading lists. Some periodicals emphasize self-help: "Seven Ways to Improve Your Sex Technique," and "You, Too, Can Drink Anyone Under the Table." Others offer household hints, such as "How to Cook a Man," and "How to Prospect for Uranium." Educational articles on "Science Conquers Sex" and "The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits," vie with sports features like "French Girls on a Six-Day Grind" (women cyclists...

Author: By Darryl Estherbrook, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 4/13/1950 | See Source »

Without being a bad show, Great To Be Alive somehow manages to become an insipid one. It starts out with an idea of its own; it ends up slopping over with all the dead seaweed known to musicomedy. The show gets no farther on sex than it does on spooks, and on murder it gets nowhere at all. More crucially, it doesn't get far on its music, either: Composer Ellstein's score is just agreeably banal, and the Bullock lyrics are not much fun even when clever. As for the gifted cast, Valerie Bettis is used monotonously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Counting Cancers. The proportion of cancers detected in apparently well people is not high-between 1% and 2%, according to age and sex. But detection of developed cancers is not Dr. L'Esperance's main goal. Her long-term aim is prevention. True prevention cannot come until far more is learned about cancer in the laboratories (TIME, June 27). Meanwhile, the prevention of fully malignant cancers can be achieved, Dr. L'Esperance believes, if precancerous signs are spotted early enough by a physician who knows what to look for and how to look for it. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prevention Is Her Aim | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...education of the English and Indian youth of this country in knowledge, and godliness." Mark you gentlemen, the charter says youth, not youths or young men. And youth refers to persons of either sex, especially a young man but not exclusively. Realizing the eventual emancipation of women the founding fathers left the charter open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charter Sanctions Women | 3/31/1950 | See Source »

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