Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City a committee called Citizens For Victory (most prominent officers: Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, Fiscal Expert Harry Scherman, Editor Walter Millis) wrote an advertisement this week under the glaring banner: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THIS COUNTRY? The ad went over the same barren, dreary ground as the daily headlines: Our own young boys are dying bravely for us; so are Russians, British, Chinese; but in Washington the spectacle of pork-barrel politics is as unblushing as ever. The ad denounced the farm bloc as "those to whom V means Votes in November." Other culprits...
...childless wives keep up their hopes as long as Sarah did, but last week would-be parents had good news: with the proper medical care and two years' experiment, more than 30% of childless marriages need not be barren. How to achieve these results is explained in a simple, authoritative new book about the causes and cures of sterility-Facts for Childless Couples (C. C. Thomas; $2). The author: Endocrinologist Edwin Crowell Hamblen, of Duke University, an outstanding authority in his field (and the father of two children...
...good medical care. Sometimes doses of thyroid extract are needed to stimulate the ovaries. Treatment with ovarian hormones (estrogen and progestin), says the doctor, plays "no significant part in the treatment of sterility." Of course, if both ovaries have been mutilated or removed, a woman is permanently barren...
...formerly imported from Java, in l) life jackets where, like kapok, it is six times as buoyant as cork; 2) linings of flying suits, where it is as warm as wool but six times lighter. Next year farmers will be paid to plant free milkweed seed in 50,000 barren acres of upper Michigan...
Blaze of Glory. In Barren, Wis., a hen laid an egg measuring 13 inches around (the long way), died...