Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aspiration or testicular puncture was not acceptable. "The only way which presently seems open is that of postcoital artificial insemination between spouses . . . What medical science does [in such cases] is to further pump or inject the semen, coitally deposited, right into the external os, into the cervical canal, hoping that the teeming millions of injected spermatozoa may swim their way up ... to meet an ovum.. This method, utilized to aid nature, might obtain the moralist's permission...
...writer's morning mail a few days ago was a postcard he had sent himself from Holland. This represented a momentary interest in the speed of the trans-Atlantic mails. On the back of the card was glossy photo graph of a neat white sloop knifing along a Dutch canal, with three well-starched citizens grinnning proudly on its deck...
...Northumberland Baptist Association canvassed the hills and valleys of central Pennsylvania by stagecoach, canal boat and horseback, looking for money to start a new school. That fall, with donations given by thrifty churchmen ranging from 25? to $25,000,* the school that was to become Bucknell University held its first classes-22 students meeting with two professors in the Baptist Church basement in quiet Lewisburg...
...Pause That Refreshes), a fleet of 200 yellow trucks pound along ancient Roman routes from the bottling centers, and deliverymen dressed in uniforms emblazoned with Coca-Cola's red patch trundle boxes into caffe bars and wineshops. In Venice, two motor launches (see cut) chug along the Grand Canal on delivery routes...
Meanwhile, an airlift was organized to fly supplies from the capital to the disaster zone. A Shell Oil Co. plane crashed near Ambato killing 34 rescuers. From the Canal Zone, U.S. C-47s flew in medical supplies and a Red Cross team. "We have not lost our courage," said Galo Plaza. "Neither Ambato nor Ecuador shall cry any more, but begin to work." Ambato, he said, would be rebuilt as a modern, quakeproof city...