Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...findings: he had a tumor on his pituitary gland; evidently it had boosted the gland's output of growth hormone to a fantastic level, while suppressing its output of three other vital master hormones which govern the adrenal glands, the thyroid and the sex glands...
...sexual reproduction, the chromosomes behave differently. The sex cells (sperm and egg) are the end results of a complicated process (meiosis or reduction division) that gives each of them half as many chromosomes as in the nonsexual cells. This reduction is necessary because the sex cells join during fertilization of the egg, and if each contributed a full set of chromosomes, the fertilized egg would have twice the normal number. But if both sperm and egg contribute half as many chromosomes, the fertilized egg gets just the right number...
...Philosophy. Freudian man stems largely from the great Victorian period of machine genius: the psyche is a systematic motor, complicated but explicable in its deep and unconscious workings. The motor is controlled beyond the individual's power, largely by environment and sex, and can be tinkered with only with the help of that indispensable repairman, the analyst. Adler's starting point is evolution, as interpreted by philosophical Darwinians. Like Darwin, Adler saw man as an evolving species but like Samuel Butler and Nietzsche, he rated man's will far above man's environment and physical heredity...
...thing that definitely will not change: the Army's attitude to indiscriminate sex and to spirituous drink. "Every one of the thousands of Salvationists," said General Kitching, "is a total abstainer. We deplore the easy thinking that exists today in the matter of sexual license and impurities...
...rest of the picture trying to kill the sergeant. In the book they both succeeded, but in the picture the girl survives to exemplify the moviemakers' striking contribution to contemporary sociology-a general solution for the social and emotional problems of the mulatto. The solution: give up sex...