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Word: ages (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senile patients (up to age 92) who had been moody and withdrawn or waspish and argumentative became happier and easier to get along with on iproniazid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug of the Year? | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...rolls entirely, gave his most substantial reductions to the 70% of Canadians whose taxable incomes are $2,000 a year or less; e.g., a $5,000-a-year wage earner with two children will save $64. Even though the Tories had earlier poured $150 million into higher old-age pensions and pay boosts for the armed forces and civil service, Fleming still came out in the black (predicted surplus: $80 million). For this he could thank the ousted Liberal regime; fearful of spurring inflation, the luckless Liberals had left $252 million unspent in the treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Tax Cuts | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...Lima Maternity Hospital, Hilda Trujillo gave birth to a daughter weighing a trifle over six pounds. The mother took no anesthetic, and the five-hour labor was entirely normal; so was the child, except that it was perhaps a month premature. Not normal: the mother's age. She was herself a child of nine years, seven months, 28 days. Only a few months ago she wore white cardboard wings and played an angel in the third-grade play at school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Little Mother | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...November Hilda entered the Maternity Hospital as the patient of Obstetrician Rolando Colareta, underwent examination by a team of 16 obstetricians, gland specialists, radiologists, psychiatrists and general practitioners. They reported her to be normal, only a little older-looking than other girls of her age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Little Mother | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...mean pregnancy in children so young except in rare cases." In 30 years as an obstetrician he had seen four such cases in girls under eleven; Hilda Trujillo was only the second youngest. Eighteen years before he assisted in the case of the youngest: Lina Medina, pregnant at the age of five years, eight months; mother, by Caesarean section, of a normal boy at the age of six years, five months (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Little Mother | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

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