Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captain got in touch with a woman naturalist attached to a Cape Province museum, and she in turn summoned Dr. J. L. B. Smith from Rhodes University College in Grahamstown. By the time he arrived, a taxidermist had skinned and mounted the creature, throwing away the carcass (which was rotting) but keeping the skull. Dr. Smith pronounced it "sensational." Photographs were sent to London, where Geologist Errol Ivor White of the British Museum called the find "one of the most amazing events in the realm of Natural History in the 20th Century...
Last year, looking for a way further to capitalize on his formula, Publisher Funk decided that Your Life was capable of subdivision. He took the charm department of Your Life, christened it Your Personality, fed it with such appetizers as "Woman's Life Is Ruled by Fear" and "I am a Virgin, But-." Started as a quarterly, Your Personality was a full-grown monthly by March...
...successful, efficient, intelligent, respectable bankers, businessmen, industrialists, community leaders, architects, engineers, etc., who build up a World's Fair in 1939-though they probably have a good many erotic activities-would attach very little significance to the physical relationship between a man and a woman...
Said Eleanor Roosevelt, who has probably caught more trains and planes than any other U. S. woman: "Nothing on God's green earth would induce me to run for the Presidency...
...small, dingy Paris room, where dregs of a stormy sunset filtered through the window, a young physician named Antoine Thibault found three people: a doctor, younger and more inexperienced than himself, a curious, silent, red-headed woman named Rachel, a little girl who was dying. Antoine was no surgeon, but incapable of taking thought without action, he decided to operate at once. He cleared the plates off the table, placed the child on it. He stripped the shade from the lamp. Sweating, exalted, anxious and yet confident, he thought, when the preparations went well: "I'm a wonderful fellow...