Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specifications. His patients bring him a written report of the time of their menstrual periods for from six to eight months. These records, said Dr. Miller, have shown "that the old. time-honored 28-day cycle has been largely a figment of the imagination, and that the average healthy woman will have a cycle which varies between a minimum of 26 or 27 days and a maximum of 30 to 32 days...
...cell can be fertilized only during the twelve-hour period immediately following its emergence from the [ovary]; 3) the fertilizing ability of the sperm cell in the female genital tract is maintained for not more than 24 to 36 hours." From those biological facts and the woman's record of her longest period Dr. Miller marks a calendar by which she and her husband may guide themselves. As an added precaution he advises continence two days before and two days after ovulation, thus allowing for a five-day period of fertility instead of the biological three-day minimum...
...were taken from an educational motion picture called The Birth of a Baby. Produced twelve months ago by the American Committee on Maternal Welfare, Inc. and sponsored by 16 medical and social service societies, favorably previewed by a majority of 12,000 doctors and clubwomen, the picture showed a woman's life through pregnancy and childbirth (TIME, April 4). Climax of the film's 72 minutes was the actual birth of a baby. Medical groups from the American Medical Association down endorsed the film, and its serious purpose: the reduction of sickness and death among mothers and offspring...
...minutes after Policeman S. C. Hopkins of Washington, Ga. jailed a Negro woman for fighting, he was confronted on his beat by the same woman. Said she: "Don't get mad with me. I didn't break out of jail. I just come down here to tell you the back door is open...
...expertly, with no waste motions, sometimes with humor, frequently with a good deal of technical information thrown in-about steel mills, prize fights, greyhound racing, navigation. Except for Thomas Wolfe's story of racial conflict, The Child by Tiger, and Walter Edmonds' tale of a white woman captured by Indians, Delia Borst, the stories that tackle weighty subjects bog deep in sentimentality, occasionally, as in Jacland Marmur's A Woman of His Own, sink almost out of sight...