Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharpened by Depression, farmers have begun to cooperate. New York, which has a regular pheasant season of only six days, with a two-bird bag limit and shooting of cock birds only, now allows farmers to sell hunting rights on artificially-raised pheasants without limit on season, bag or sex. Many a new York farmer is doing a nice business at $6 to §15 per gun per day. Texas, where gamewise farmers have been compensated for nine years, this year has 3,700.000 privately-owned acres open to hunters of deer, quail, ducks, wild turkeys. The gunner pays...
...cried, "we are not making poison gas. What are we making? Well, for one thing Schering-Kahlbaum are spending millions of marks to isolate the male sex hormone. Two years ago I predicted that the Nazi Government would do much to restore the German people to their primitive vigor. Most emphatically I am today in the business not of killing men but of curing them. Our hormone experiments are designed to increase manly vigor and courage. Several Berlin policemen have volunteered as subjects and we are making progress...
...farce but emerged as a mystery play. A matronly ballerina named Lois Valois has had three sons by assorted fathers. Arthur is a banker, all he thinks about is money; Paul is a composer, all he thinks about is music; Charles is an athlete, all he thinks about is sex. A personable young woman named Yvonne Dallier is introduced into this menage, and after an unconscionable amount of bickering and posturing, it is the goatlike Charles who succeeds in piercing her resistance...
...Morgan discoveries show how the physical and mental characteristics of ancestors are transmitted to offspring. Gregor Mendel showed that such transmission occurred according to a regular system. Other investigators showed that the work is carried on by the male and female sex cells and that in those sex cells the significant factors are microscopic rods called chromosomes...
Inquiries into the sex life of fungi is the subject of an experiment being carried on by Ralph Emerson 1G.S. under the supervision of William II. Weston, Jr., professor of Botany in the Cryptogamic Botany laboratory. This is the first time which inquiries of such a sort have been made. Already Emerson has crossed algae plants to form new plants, revealing what has been a missing link in evolution...