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Word: womens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indeed ironic for a man to show women that men can be eliminated as a reproductive factor. Of course your article [reporting how Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus fertilized a rabbit ovum without the help of a male rabbit and brought the offspring successfully to birth] stated: "This work will in no way affect the manner of living or customs," but just let some women get their hands on his formula and develop it further and in another hundred years or so, men will be absent from this earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...assorted items in TIME'S People department of Nov. 13 there is one concerning a certain Cornelia Otis Skinner, described as a "monologuist," who says: "Hollywood is cheap, it's tawdry, it's wicked. The people in power are so horrible that my friends, men and women who speak my language, are miserably unhappy there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Warm Springs: Budget Director Harold Smith, who talked about cutting non-military expenses; Mayor the Reverend Mr. Woodfin G. Harry, who made a speech; the Warm Springs Women's Club, which sang;* pretty, yellow-headed Patient Ann Smithers, age six, who won the right to sit at the President's table at the Thanksgiving dinner, gnawed a drumstick despite the fact that her baby teeth are falling out; the Georgia Congressional delegation, minus Senator George, who withstood the New Deal's purge. "There was no invitation for me to go," explained Senator George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Quiet | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...British War Office issued a new regulation applicable to all British women enrolled in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, Women's Transport Service, Women's Legion (ambulances, firefighting, messages by motorcycle), Mechanical Transport Training Corps, Emergency Service. The regulation: "[The women] shall be granted leave on compassionate grounds when their husbands are on leave from the armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Compassion | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...order to give this new drive teeth, Leahy said that plainclothesmen and women detectives are going to be scattered throughout the city to be sure that the local "refreshment houses" toe the line. All taverns violating this regulation will first be warned. Then if further trouble occurs their licenses will be revoked. Several have already been warned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liquor Not to Be Sold to Minors in Harvard Square | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

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