Word: barren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight years ago, Swedish Gynecologist Carl Gemzell found that he could stimulate female ovulation with a hormone he extracted from human pituitaries (obtained at autopsy). Known as gonadotropin, it has made mothers out of nearly half the barren women who were injected with it. The trouble is that it sometimes makes them too fertile, and they give birth to twins, triplets, quadruplets.* Stillbirths have ranged as high as sextuplets...
...career and died at 26. You'd never guess that her first marriage, to an important man, lasted almost a year, for in the film it goes for less than a day. And you never learn of her second marriage, of her deep remorse at being a barren woman, and of her bitter feud with her studio and its head, Louis B. Mayer...
...solid phosphate, the natives support themselves by selling it off at the rate of some 1,800,000 tons a year. The only cloud on the horizon is the fact that by 1995 the 5,263-acre island will be stripped of phosphate (used for fertilizer), leaving a big, barren pothole in the Pacific, 2,500 miles northeast of Sydney. Then Nauru's dark-skinned population will have to move to another, less tight little island...
...only work a field so many seasons in a row before it becomes barren," he said at the end. "I don't think Paar's half acre is completely worn out, but it has gotten a little dry lately." Yet "some day I may re-enter the lists -with a new saber neither broken nor bent-and plow up the field all over again. Come on, Leica, come on. We're going home...
John Rock, SC.D., gynecologist. Distinguished by your efforts to increase fertility in the lonely barren couples. Distinguished by your efforts to control fertility of the teeming masses...