Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dave had done nothing but be born their brother's brothers. But the Parish people wanted more blood. Sheriff Turner guessed the Blackman brothers had better be moved to the Shreveport jail. Three deputies fetched them in a car, one day last week...
...many times repeated. Finally it was deemed safe for humans. French and Belgian physicians collaborated to inoculate the newborn, particularly those with tuberculous antecedents. Thousands of babies have been shot with B. C. G. in the last five years, and their progress carefully watched. Many of them were born and raised in a tuberculous environment, nursed by tuberculous mothers. Mortality has been cut down from the old average of 26% during the first year to 1%. The immunity so far has lasted four years and there were no deaths reported during that time. The vaccination itself is reported harm less...
...sleepless nights wondering whether her two children's lives are poisoned too. Her sister Albina Maggia Larice cannot walk at all. Her two children were born dead. Mrs. Edna Hussman hobbles about her household duties. Katherine Schaub developed pains in the skull. Her jaws crumbled; her features were curiously altered; then her mind sickened. For some time she was confined in a hospital for "nervous disorders." Her cousin Virginia Randolph is numbered among the first thirteen victims. Her death certificate read Vincent's Angina- Crippled Grace Fryer still sticks to her job. She has worked in a Newark...
Well, Dorothy has practically the wrong ideas about everything, and no ideals, for she does nothing but fall madly in love with the kind of gentlemen who were born without money and have not made any since. Like the saxaphone player, for instants, that she married, without giving herself the opertunity to get sick of him first...
...Rockefeller lost its Director of Studies and Medical Education. This official resigned because he wanted to speak freely about educational matters, to criticize constructively without straining the bonds of obligation. He has since accepted Oxford's invitation to be Caylorian lecturer. His name, world-famed, is Abraham Flexner. Born in Louisville, Ky., in 1866, he went into teaching when he received his A. B. from Johns Hopkins University, at the age of 20. Teacher Flexner's life since then has been a constant struggle to raise educational standards: fighting the "diploma mills." working for better education of physicians...