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Female Sex Hormone. The female procreative apparatus secretes a complex chemical called for want of a special name the female sex hormone. The hormone is carried by the blood throughout the body. It is essential to a woman's health. It gives women their feminine characteristics. Its lack or scant production causes physiological irregularity, often sterility. Women create more of it while they are pregnant than at other times. It becomes available in relatively large quantities in the amniotic fluid and placenta...
...devoid of spontaneity and realism, it uses little scenery other than chairs and tables which may represent almost any architectural feature. The actor expresses himself in turn by speech singing, gymnastics and dancing. Fearsome, comic masks and face-painting, costumes, and a whole intricate play of gesture have complex, traditional significances (stooping, for instance, means passing under a lintel, i. e., entering another house). The singing is accompanied by one musician producing whining, squealing sounds on the Hu-ch'in (bamboo bow-and-string instrument), by others tapping wood blocks, striking cymbals, plunking rudimentary banjos. Their approaches to harmony...
...make the American student a rather peculiar individual as far as college students go through the ages and over the countries of the world. Where before most of the regulatory work had to do with study, now in America the colleges are forced to take up the infinitely more complex problem of regulation of its members is a question that cannot be solved merely from the perusal of this college controversy. It is the same question as to whether the federal or state government has the power to make us stop buying liquor. The only general observation that...
...back to California and his home at Stanford University, it is to work, not to play. Last week he was hard at work there in the name of oil conservation. As his train sped him back from Los Angeles to Washington and an office stacked with the most technically complex problems of the Hoover administration, he left behind him a large group of California oil operators more conservation-conscious than ever before. Secretary Wilbur's parting words had been: "Unless oil operators quit squabbling, the government will have to take charge...
...drones from the workers, and charitably, the Aesthetes from all of these. No longer need the Harvard man feel reticent in the presence of strangers and resort to broad A's and purloined gems from Henry James. After this resolution of his adopted character into its component parts, the complex is dispelled, all inhibitions swept away, and he may feel free to indulge in untrammelled self-expression...