Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chances for a happy marriage is the happiness of his parents. Other favorable auguries: having had a happy childhood, having had firm but not harsh early home discipline, having had little conflict with his parents and strong attachment to them, having had parents who were frank about sex...
...their skins, pushed a disc-shaped ovarian hormone tablet, weighing from eight to 16 milligrams, into each slit, and stitched up the incision. There was no local reaction but a tight coat of connective tissue began to grow around the tablets. After six months the guinea pigs' male sex organs had atrophied, their rudimentary male mammary glands had become greatly enlarged. The tablets were then removed, dried, weighed. It was found that each guinea pig had absorbed from three to four milligrams of a tablet into his blood stream...
Most spendthrift of U. S. foundations has been the General Education Board, which John Davison Rockefeller established in 1902 for "the promotion of education within the U. S. without distinction of race, sex or creed." By last December it had spent $255,334,670. Since 1920 its trustees, believing the future "will find means to provide for itself," have been giving away the principal as well as the income of this fund.* Last week President Raymond Elaine Fosdick reported that the General Education Board has only $8,700,000 still unpledged, will soon be liquidated...
...Albert Pelzman of Georgetown University School of Medicine said that he is starting an agency for proxy fathers in Washington. Blonds, brunets, redheads, Jews, Catholics and Protestants will be on the list, he said, and a prospective mother can have her child influenced in every physical respect except sex. Heredity and background of all candidates are thoroughly investigated. Since the human male attains his highest fertility during his twenties, Dr. Pelzman's present list of 15 is drawn mostly from medical students and interns who are glad to get the $25 fee per insemination. Operation of the bureau will...
Besides teaching members how to be good unionists and how to think about economic problems, I. L. G. W. U.'s education department gives them lectures on sex and marriage, shows them how to paint, takes them sightseeing, brings them together for dancing, singing. The department has distributed over 200,000 pamphlets, produced songs, radio programs, phonograph records, films. It runs a vacation resort, Unity House, in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, where for as little as $19 a week union members may go to swim, sail, dance, play tennis, hear concerts...