Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gradual loss of male hormones, which make men virile. But the real advance in man's age-old search for virility began only: 1) when Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Germany, after treating 62,500 gallons of urine, succeeded in crystallizing one two-thousandths of an ounce of male sex hormone called "androsterone"; 2) when Leopold Ruzicka of Switzerland manufactured a similar substance "testosterone" from the fat of sheep's wool (TIME, Sept...
...patients improved, achieved or regained manhood. One felt like "fighting wildcats." But these benefits continued only during the administration of the hormone. Drs. Vest & Howard cautiously warned: "It is only a substitution therapy, and certainly in instances of marked hypogonadism [under-functioning of the sex organs] it must be given continuously for sustained effect. . . . These clinical results can be regarded as being entirely in an experimental phase...
...Women. Clare Boothe's sharp analysis of her sex, with only women in the cast but only men in the offing (TIME...
...John Harvey Kellogg is a healthy old man. For many years he has worked hard, ridden a bicycle for exercise, worn white clothes the year around "to let sun-light through," chewed each mouthful of vegetarian fodder 32 times. Editor of Good Health, author of Plain Facts (sex education via pictures of plant life), he is the inventor of flaked cereals manufactured by his brother, W. K. Kellogg. Dr. Kellogg once dictated (indoors) for 20 hours straight, dressed only in his summer underwear. Last week he celebrated his 86th birthday by stripping to a loin cloth, dictating (outdoors...
...revolutionary as its sex program was the commission's proposal for changing the curriculum. The graduate of the traditional, classical high school, it said, "knows the story of the geese that saved Rome" but is generally ignorant of the French Revolution, of "Mussolini's and Hitler's use of power." Plumping for a thoroughly progressive program, the commission proposed that highschool studies be built around five cores of human activity-language arts; social relations; home and vocational arts; creative and recreative arts; nature, mathematics and science...