Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...front of the anus and "shells out" the enlarged lobes of the prostate. His punch operation started the removal of prostatic enlargements through the natural urinary opening. He also designed radical operations for cancer of the prostate, a number of operations to treat hermaphrodites, restore them to their predominant sex. One "girl" whom he turned into a man fell in love with an Institute nurse and married her. His enormous tome Genital Abnormalities, Hennaphroditism and Related Adrenal Diseases is a classic...
...have a completely open, not to say vacant mind" on the cause of cancer. But two known causes of cancer are now established: 1) organic compounds derived from coal tar, an industrial hazard setting up skin irritations frequently leading to cancer, 2) abnormal metabolism of body chemicals which produce sex hormones (TIME, Sept. 30). Both carcinogens have chemical characteristics in common. Memorial's laboratories have been working on these and a host of research projects on the influences of diet, heredity, radioactive elements on cancer...
...Without losing a gasp of suspense, he has fashioned his free-lance rangers into characters of such ludicrous gallantry, bravado and rough-&-tumble efficiency as to make his tale a classic parody on every horse opera ever produced. But with the technique of a master storyteller he inserts enough sex, sentiment and sock to keep his yarn well outside the bounds of buffoonery...
...headquarters: Manhattan) awarded the Harmon International Trophy to two New Yorkers: Jacqueline Cochran and Major Alexander P. ("Sascha") de Seversky. Pretty, 31-year-old Aviatrix Cochran is the wife of Wall Street Tycoon Floyd Odium, has won the award twice before.* In 1939 she became the first of her sex to make a blind landing, set five national and two international records, some of them in planes designed by Major Seversky. Sascha Seversky himself holds a handful of records despite having lost a leg in a crash at sea as a Russian ace in World War I, is proudest...
Chairman of the Commission on Marriage and Divorce since it was set up in 1925 has been grey, liberal Right Rev. Herman Page, 74, retired Bishop of Michigan, who feels that "the church must start with biology and the sanctification of sex." To implement this realistic view, the new canon would require every clergyman to make sure that the Christian ideal of marriage as "a life-long union of husband and wife" is understood and sought by the persons to be married. Candidates must sign a statement promising "to make every effort" to realize that ideal. Every clergyman is further...