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Word: womans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient was 23 years old and seemed to be a good-looking girl. But the first question Dr. Louis William Mara-ventano was asked in his Yonkers (N.Y.) office was: "What am I, a man or a woman?" "Joan" (the real name was withheld) was a pseudohermaphrodite* whose external genitals resembled both male and female organs. Something had gone wrong (doctors are not sure just how) during fetal development when the time came for the undifferentiated sex organs to become either completely male or completely female. The condition occurs in about one in 1,000 births; accurate figures are hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Man | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...average woman, with a menstrual cycle of 28 days, is most fertile on the 11th, 12th and 13th days following the beginning of menstruation. Women with cycles of 24 to 35 days should be most fertile from the 9th to 19th day (60% from the 11th to 13th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fertile Advice | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Roman Catholic Mass last Mother's Day, Stewart noticed one woman leaving abruptly. He followed the police ambulance that raced her to a maternity ward, and landed a story about mother and newborn baby on Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the God Beat | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Married. Ann Todd, 39, high-strung blonde British cinemactress (The Seventh Veil, One Woman's Story"); and David Lean, 41, high-strung British cinema director (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, One Woman's Story*); each for the third time; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

When rapture No. 1 comes along, Maureen O'Hara, an impetuous young woman of the 1880s, defies her respectable family to marry an impoverished painter (Dana Andrews with a beard). Soon after he takes her off to live in a picturesque London slum, Dana turns out to be just what mother suspected-a bounder. Fortunately for Maureen, he is also a drunkard. One bright morning-after, he topples off the front stoop and breaks his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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