Word: births
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked if she were an American, the Baroness recoiled and snapped: "Only by birth...
...surgical instruments, rubber devices and index cards in their arms, herded the six women into the patrol wagon. The wagon smelled horribly. The women sat down on its benches. Policemen posted themselves on guard. The wagons growled away, angrily jeered by the women on the sidewalk. Thus was the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (TIME, March 18) raided last week. A policewoman, one Josephine McNamara, mother of two grown children, had reported that the clinic was giving out demoralizing information and advice...
When Henry Ford changed from Model T to Model A, how much did the decease of the T model and the birth pangs of the A model cost him? Many a U. S. motorist has asked himself that question, has found one answer in the fact that 1928 Chevrolet production exceeded 1928 Ford production. Last week, however, a dollars-and-cents answer was provided. From figures filed last week with the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations in Boston, it appeared that the new model bill was something more than $72,000,000. For, according to these figures, the Ford profit...
...again. No.1 Wife, jealous, hearing that No. 2 was to have a baby, bought a huge bouquet of chrysanthemums, hid in it a lively venomous viper, mailed it to her hated rival. No. 2 opened the package, saw the snake (dead from cold in transit) drop out, gave premature birth to her baby. No. 1 Wife, cornered by police, confessed, will be tried for attempted murder...
...intercollegiate conference assumed a form intended to accomplish two things: to convert college men to Christianity and a better interpretation of that intangible essence; and to offer them the inspiration necessary to carry the light of their discoveries into the colleges from which they came. Distinctly evangelical at its birth, the conference has more recently come down to the practical plane of college life in general. At the present time, the purpose is, in the words of ardent supporters, "to provide a week given over to intelligent, broadminded, consideration of the part religion can play in the complex life...