Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day constables cautioned Belgrave Square traffic to go slowly and quietly. Carpenters coming to work on a building two doors away beamed: ''Lor' love you, we'll put cotton wool on our hammers if the Duke wants us to." In the sun on No. 3's front stoop a big black cat leisurely washed itself. It was raining when Edward of Wales arrived to pay his respects to his latest nephew...
...Zurich laboratory had just cabled him word of their success. Testosterone is the name of the new hormone. It is related to the male sex hormone, androsterone, found in urine which Dr. Ruzicka previously synthesized. Like androsterone, testosterone is made from the fat (cholesterol) in sheep's wool, but is 25 to 50 times as potent a masculinizer as concentrated androsterone...
...produce one ounce of natural testosterone would require the castration of some 1,000,000 sturdy men. German and Swiss chemical laboratories are already prepared, said Dr. Ruzicka last week, to manufacture from sheep's wool all the testosterone the world needs to cure homosexuals, revitalize...
...Donahue of New York celebrated solemn pontifical mass. In heavy cope and towering mitre, Bishop John Joseph Cantwell of Los Angeles and San Diego approached a wiry, bespectacled prelate, wearing no cope but kneeling with mitre in hand. Over the head of the kneeler Bishop Cantwell slipped a white wool band decorated with black crosses-a pallium. Thus invested with the sacred symbol which signifies that he shares the supreme pastoral power of His Holiness Pius XI, San Francisco's new Archbishop John Joseph Mitty arose, blessed his flock...
Sheep's Wool & Sex. "We have a positive cure for homosexuality," exclaimed Professor Leopold Ruzicka, a Swiss organic chemist who lectured at the University of Chicago this summer. In 1931 Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Danzig discovered in the urine of men (and some women) the hormone which establishes masculinity in men (and some women). That male sex hormone was named androsterone. Last year Professor Ruzicka manufactured androsterone from cholesterol collected from the grease of sheep's wool. Last June Dr. E. Laqueur of Amsterdam discovered still another, more potent male sex hormone. Professor Ruzicka now expects to make...