Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tells how the calf loves of a group of youngsters are upset by the accidental visit of a magnetic aviator. His presence brings one maiden (Diana Barrymore) close to mature desire, sends another fanciful virgin (Joan Tetzel) out on an attempt at suicide, stirs up puppyish rages in the young brothers of the two. Undoubtedly the delicately written play is not at fault if it and adolescent trials nowadays seem somewhat irrelevant...
...would have a chain of well defended bases in the Atlantic and Caribbean. But they did mean that action was getting under way, and they implied that of all the chain of southern defense sites-not only those leased from Britain but those at Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Canal Zone (see map, p. 21)-Trinidad's development stood high on the list of priorities...
Motherless Frogs. Five years ago Physiologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus of Clark University produced fatherless rabbits by removing ova from virgin females, fertilizing the ova with a salt solution, replanting the fertilized eggs in other females to gestate (TIME, April 6, 1936). Last week Dr. Keith Roberts Porter of the Rockefeller Institute announced that he had produced a greater wonder: motherless tadpoles. He removed the nucleus from a frog's egg at the moment of fertilization, but before it could unite with the nucleus of the male sperm. This made the mother's contribution apparently a mere anonymous drop...
...subjects not likely to be aired are Bishop Abe's practice of worshiping at the Shinto Shrine at Ise and the decision of the Government-inspired church union to modify the Apostles' Creed as suggested by the Ministry of Education. Some of the deletions: the Virgin Birth because it was "immoral," the Resurrection because it was "unscientific and superstitious," the Last Judgment because it implied that the Emperor could be judged...
...Gano Dunn report (which is the No. 1 red rag to New Dealers). And in January Henderson believed his "too little too late" views on the need of expansion were getting so poor a hearing at the White House that he went off on a long vacation to the Virgin Islands. About that time rumors spread that he was through with Washington, and he began getting offers of private jobs (including a feeler asking if he would like the $48,000-a-year post William McChesney Martin was vacating as head of the Stock Exchange). Since then four things have...