Word: caesarean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ithaca, N. Y., death from malnutrition came to Caesar, baby porcupine, born by Caesarean operation performed last June by a State Conservation Department official after his automobile had killed the pregnant mother...
...first Baldwin locomotive (third in the U. S.) was born by a Caesarean operation. In 1832, when ex-Philadelphia Jeweler Matthias W. Baldwin finished work on "Old Ironsides," his first born, he found it too big to go through the exit of his tiny shop. So, vowing he was through with locomotives, he cut a hole in the wall. But "Old Ironsides" surprised him, hit 28 miles an hour on the six-mile Philadelphia-Germantown run. That was fast enough to earn immortality as a locomotive pioneer. For Old Ironsides the end came in 1857 when a Vermont landslide mummified...
...years one unhandy thing about this Caesarean seemed to be the place where it occurred. Far more conveniently situated to serve mid-continent railroad customers are the inland industrial centres which sprang up in the following decades. But last week, Baldwin's 11,000 stockholders had reason to feel lucky that Matthias Baldwin set up shop on tidewater hard-by naval shipyards. They were shown their luck when Baldwin reported its unfilled orders...
...days ago in Lima's maternity hospital, surrounded by an audience of 35 Peruvian doctors, Surgeon Lozada performed a Caesarean section on 70-lb. Lina, brought forth a lusty, six-pound baby boy. But bewildered Lina would have nothing to do with her child, could not comprehend that he belonged to her. Silent and uncommunicative, she lay on her hospital bed fondling a shiny, new doll, fingering with reverence a holy picture pinned on her pillow...
...Shanghai General Hospital. When she married him, three years after her arrival in China, she was compelled to read five chapters of the Bible each morning, ten on Sundays, while her hospital routine waited, slowed, stalled. She stood it until one morning the Bible-reading held up a Caesarean, whereupon she slammed the Bible on the floor, crying "I can't bear it! I wish I'd never seen the damned thing!" Although he "never forgave nor forgot," that ended Bible-reading in the Fearn household...