Word: sperms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...differently, a sphere having the diameter of a common pinhead (1/12 in.) possesses nearly 4,000 times the volume of a human egg. One can compute further that all the eggs needed to replace the present population of the world could be held in a derby hat, whereas the sperm to fertilize them would not exceed the volume of a fairly small pill...
...poverty-stricken residents of Bolinas Beach, Calif. (TIME, March 19). Their treasure proved valueless. So do most of the substances-usually soap, wax, paint, tallow, mud, wood, coke, clinkers, decayed fish-with which wild-eyed people rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have found the sperm whale secretion which is used as a base for expensive perfumes. No such delusion had small, apple-cheeked Roderick Palmer Crandall when he found a chunk of waxy, yellowish stuff near his grandfather's home at Islesboro. To him it was just something which bobbed up with a satisfying swoosh when...
...Nature and women, some Italians cannot become fathers. According to Research Director Allan Winter Rowe of Boston's Evans Memorial Hospital, the trouble with these peculiar Italians is that their thyroid glands neglect to secrete a newly-discovered hormone. The special duty of this hormone is to invigorate sperm cells. To reach and fertilize an ovum, a sperm cell must live at least 24 hours. Premier Mussolini found that the sperms of his peculiar Italians died before they were 12 hours old. Promptly he ordered two special clinics set up to administer the hormone of fatherhood...
Never in his life had Alf Harrodon seen ambergris, which begins as a secretion in the bowels of a sick sperm whale, ends as a base for precious perfumes. But he had been raised on the coast of Norway and like coast children throughout the world had been taught to keep his eyes peeled for it. With shaking hands he scooped up the cheesy stuff, 60 lb. of it, and carried it home. Next day he got a schoolboy friend to take a sample to his chemistry laboratory. That night the boy came back to report that the sample...
...Arabian Nights Tales. Medieval Europeans used it in cosmetics, medicines, love potions. When in the 18th Century a whaler found some inside his haul, marvel-lovers still insisted that the whale had simply found and swallowed it. But other whalers discovered it in the intestines of rare sperm whales, usually scrawny specimens, and finally scientists agreed upon its source. No one knows yet, however, whether ambergris floating loose in the sea has been expelled by a live whale or has fallen from the decaying body of a dead...