Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tall drivers of motor cars take more time to park than do short drivers. Women require more than twice as long to park their cars as do men (a sex difference). Safest drivers are men around 60.?Dr. Alvahh R. Lauer, Iowa State College...
...When caged monkeys are angered or frightened they leap to sexual activity. But monkeys at large relieve their emotion by running away or by other physical activity. This suggests that in monkeys, and probably in humans, sex is not the primal urge which Freudians make it out to be.?Dr. Otto Leif Tinklepaugh, Yale Anthropoid Experiment Station, Orange Park...
...soil-moisture or climate could have nothing to do with the case, because select and outlaw cricket bat willows grew on the same plantation. He urged further study to follow up his suspicion-that good bat willows and bad bat willows depend on the botanical strains and perhaps the sex of the willow tree. Were Fairies an Actual Race of Men? asked Dr. John Arnott MacCulloch, the learned canon of St. Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, Scotland. He finds it noteworthy that many a fairy tale deals with gnomes, dwarfs and such little folk who live in crevices, caves, dells...
...loves (Charles Collins) without costing him his, inheritance. It has one good tune ("Stumbled Over You") and another with a line beginning "And soon a baby face. . . ." Like most Fred Stone shows it has few sexy jokes and those it has deal exclusively with the intermediate sex. Sample: "Since this is A Midsummer Night's Dream, you don't mind if I wander around among the fairies?" "That's up to you-lead your own life." He also has one or two opportunities to dance. Dorothy Stone and Doris Patston dance too. So do Messrs. Royston...
...edition of 161. Until last fortnight it stood as the one monumental achievement in American bird-portraiture. But compared with Audubon's 489 supposedly distinct species. Rex Brasher (pronounced Bray-sher) has done 900 plates showing 1,200 species of North American birds. Every coloration difference due to age, sex, season or (as with the caracara) attitude, has been shown, bringing the total of figures to 3.000. All are based on sketches drawn in the field over a period of 44 years...