Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...withhold from the biologist any essential information: both calves are normal in their sex characteristics. . . . There of course is no question about the bull's future as the butcher will get him shortly, but I hesitate to cut short the life of a potential milk producer without a fair trial...
...writer is a subscriber to TIME and LIFE magazines. The former recently carried a picture of a Holstein cow family consisting of mother and six calves [TIME, Sept. 27] and certain comments, associated therewith, on the female sterility of mixed sex dual births, prompt me to suggest that TIME'S Letters column put out a feeler for more extensive and confirming information on this biological fact or canard, whichever...
...That a female calf, twin to a male, is usually sterile, is no myth. Chicago University's Frank Lillie showed some years ago why this is true of cattle and not in species which produce litters, such as pigs and dogs. He found that the sterility and abnormal sex development of female of bovine mixed twins is due to a fusion of the blood vessels of the twin embryos' placental circulatory system, so that twin calves have a common blood supply. Sex differentiation begins in the male embryo earlier than in the female, and the sex-differentiating male...
...humped, 1,250-lb. Brahma steers,* to rope and hold wild cows long enough to make them yield a pop bottle full of milk, to mount and ride wild horses in a race across the arena; cowgirls riding broncos (with the stirrups tied down as a concession to their sex); Cowboy Billy Keen vaulting over an automobile with two horses; trick Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen knocking a paper bag from the head of an assistant in the course of making a ringer, lighting a match with another ringer: mounted basketball, a game with all the punishing features of water polo...
...countrymen to play the golddigger for Polish freedom, responded to Napoleon's assault courtship by really falling in love. First meetings however, found her at least as full of politics as passion, and for the story s sake, Marie's political acumen matched her high-minded sex appeal. Cold-blooded ugly Minister of Police Fouche alternated between trying to frame her and suggesting she marry the Emperor. Aristocratic, wily Talleyrand gave her an even worse time. Josephine counted on Marie's withdrawal when she discovered that ''one may have too much of Bonaparte...