Word: gender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your excellent article you failed to mention the fact that the U.S.S.R. is utilizing its best female as well as male brains, and is unique in its representation of the feminine gender in scientific pursuits...
...Terry spelled propylaeum as "pro-pileum." Confidently, just as if she knew that the word means a vestibule or entrance, Jolitta spelled it correctly, then topped it off with syllepsis (the use of a word to modify two or more others, only one of which it agrees with in gender, number, etc.). Prize for Terry Madeira, an eighth-grader at Elizabethtown (Pa.) Junior High School: $500. For Jolitta. an eighth-grader at Harmony Rural School in McPherson, Kans., who studies spelling with her schoolteacher mother, plans to become a missionary, use most of the money for her education...
...Advertising is a marvelous field for women. They have a warm personal approach and a concern for things that is very valuable. And there is certainly no gender in ideas." The speaker, not surprisingly, was a woman: Margot Sherman, 48, vice president of Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., named last week, by the Advertising Federation of America, as Advertising Woman of the Year...
...fantastic notion that to be different from men is to be inferior to men." And the trouble with women's colleges, he added, is that, in imitating the men's, they treat higher education as" "something like spinach, which can profitably be absorbed without reference to the gender of the absorbent." Since 1943, when he left his job as professor of history at Stanford to take over Mills College, chubby Lynn White, 50, has been trying his best to change all that...
...Very Good Job." Calling shots in the control room, Director Patrick Fay kept stumbling over gender: "Gimme a closeup for her," and a second later, "Tighten up on his face." But with little show of emotion on his delicate features or in his contralto voice, chain-smoking Kahler gave a forthright, fascinating case history: his masquerade had grown so adept that from the age of 18 he had earned his living not as a female impersonator but as a woman and nightclub B girl. Wyatt's questioning brought out that Kahler had never known his father, that he came...