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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...icebreaker in which a man & woman kneel face to face. One crumples a sheet of Kleenex into a ball and holds it between his (or her) chin and shoulder and attempts to transfer it without the use of hands to a corresponding position on a player of the opposite sex. Only ironical rule in this organized nuzzling: participating couples must not be man & wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Dialect of the People | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...college for men, to establish coeducation must be a mystery to many students and alumni. Certainly there is not correlation between progressive and coeducation or reactionary and college-for-men as descriptions of an educational institution. Certainly this is not convenient, for injecting an additional thousand students of any sex into Harvard classes is not convenient, although it does solve the problems of Radcliffe, which problems the Corporation has unfortunately made its own. Certainly Harvard as a men's college did not "owe" the use of its facilities to Radcliffe, any more than Smith owes the use of its facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe in the College | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...animal, sex undisclosed, was using the obsolete dumb waiter as its headquarters, and was able to travel secretly to the various floors of the building at will, by use of the machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mysterious Animal's Travels Baffle Barnard Authorities | 3/25/1950 | See Source »

Other services taken over by the Health Commissioner this year have included assistance with sex lectures, baby-sitting talks, and handling student complaints about the Health Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe May Get Free TB X-rays Next Month | 3/21/1950 | See Source »

...future for Orlon in auto tops, tents, etc. Still looking for new products to research, Du Pont recently polled its own employees. Some of the things they would like: a tarnish-proof coating for silverware, a chip-proof nail polish, runproof and snagproof stockings, a way to predetermine the sex of babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Billion-Dollar Baby | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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