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Word: sexual (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inconsistencies, they would drive a section man to the farthest reaches of insanity; they are so brilliant. One moment sexual love is the epitome of human force, the next it is a sex-stie. The silver stallion is continually fading into the mangy old grey mare, but his ideas as he gallops along are struck off like sparks from a flint...

Author: By H. B., | Title: De Casseres Explodes The Bernard Shaw Myth | 10/30/1930 | See Source »

Doctors attribute his precocity to some defect in his pineal gland. This ductless gland, apparently the rudiment of a third eye,* lies in among the interior folds of the brain. Its functions are not well understood. One thing it certainly does is to inhibit sexual development of chilrendren. Because all the ductless glands of the body delicately control and balance one another's forces, when one acts abnormally as in Clarence Kehr's case, or in Harold Arnold's case (see col. 2), it incites a physiological riot. Clarence Kehr's parents plan to appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Boy-Man | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...With all the restraints of care for posterity at once removed, civilization began to disintegrate. Racial hatreds flamed and religious wars burst out. Fanatics seized governments. The U. S. sent a crusading army of ten million into central Asia. Economic systems faltered. Workmen abandoned their labors. Women became untamed sexual aggressors. Problems that would occupy 20 volumes are dismissed in sentences. Nations perish in a paragraph, continents in a chapter. Each phase of the debacle is outlined with unflagging vigor and a wild flow of words. Finally Phaeton Andrews, last man to survive, after a voyage from rotting New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End of Race | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...people try to secure the complicity of doctors in order that a veto against indecent dress should not apply? Many other things gain vogue under medical pretext which would have disastrous consequences if they got a foothold among sound medical practitioners, such as things concerning conjugal life and sexual relationships, offenses against maternity, and therapeutic abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cocktails, Confidence, Aberration | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...manufacturer, an ex-soldier, a failure. The last chapter tells about the killer, his preposterous motive for his preposterous crimes, what these twelve men voted to do with him. Author Thayer has saved his case histories from being boring by his brisk narration, his breezy bits of salaciousness; the sexual life of his jurymen is as varied as their nationalities, and their author tells much. Illustrator Mahlon Blaine helps him to the best of his ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Too Much Mustard | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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