Word: sperms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Literary Detective Vincent traces Melville's track, Melville thumbed through a compendium of sea catastrophes (given him by Hawthorne) and recalled the Essex disaster of 1820, in which a whaling ship had been sunk by a giant sperm whale in the Pacific. One report credited the tragedy to the whale "Mocha Dick," a white killer roaming murderously through the legends...
...Melville had to create a hero powerful enough to combat it. Such was Captain Ahab, in the novel's first draft merely "from Nantucket" but in its final version "from humanity...Fate's lieutenant." He seined such old tomes as Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale and Scoresby's Account of the Arctic Regions for obscure facts...
...operation was successful. There is every reason to believe that "John" (as the doctors called him after the operation) can have normal sex relations. Later tests on the fertility of the sperm will show whether it is possible for him to become a father...
...Chinese-born University of California biochemist, reported success in isolating for the first time the sex hormone FSH (for follicle-stimulating hormone). In the female, FSH stimulates the growth of follicles in the ovary and makes ovulation possible; in the male, it stimulates tubules in the testes that produce sperm. Dr. Li isolated it from the pituitary glands of freshly killed sheep. Since other researchers were looking for it, too, Dr. Li says: "I was damn lucky. I hit on the right method." With the same sort of "luck," he was also the first to isolate four other hormones, including...
...fact, artificial insemination has been seriously suggested as a means of produring a new super race here in America. H. J. Muller, Nobel Prize winner, and President of the American Genetic Society, in his book called "Out of the Night," recommended that the sperm of a group of selected men be injected into American women, producing a conglomerate mass of "perfectly human specimens...