Word: sperms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mighty sperm whale That when boldly attacked in his lair With one sweep of his mighty and ponderous tail...
Under its sometimes placid surface, the sea is shown to be a swirling and endless battleground: 70-ton sperm whales pitted against squids 30 feet long, fur seals preying on species of fish no man has ever seen alive. And in the midst of this bloody, ceaseless struggle, some pacifists survive a long time: in the calm Sargasso Sea, plants last for centuries...
Having discovered the prothoracic or "growth and differentiation hormone," Williams and Edmond Schmidt next devised a test for it. Then found that the presence of the hormone in a tissue culture would cause the male sex cells to develop into sperm cells...
...pregnenolone was discussed with great interest: its ability to help sterile males. Montreal's Dr. Hans Selye, a leading hormone expert, reported that it increases the sperm production of the testes. Dr. Selye worked mostly with experimental animals, but Dr. A. R. Abarbanel of Los Angeles experimented with human males. Of 40 sterile men that he treated with pregnenolone, Abarbanel claimed, 18 were enabled to impregnate their wives. Many of the men reported increased sexual desire-which may or may not have been imagination...