Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founded 75 years ago as an agency to care for wounded war combatants. Last week, at the quadrennial Red Cross conference, originally scheduled for Madrid, then shifted to London, the fighting soldier received little attention. Instead, the main conference topic was the protection of the noncombatant man, woman & child in time...
...year-old 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Descendant of England's famed Cavendish and Bentinck families, the daughter of a clergyman grandson of the. third Duke of Portland, the Countess was the mother of ten children, six of them still living. By far her most noted child is England's Queen Elizabeth, consort of George...
Soda Water to Shanghai. Otway Hebron Chalkley, born in Richmond some 50 years ago (he is even bashful about his exact age), was the only child of a prosperous, respected leather merchant. In Richmond he is remembered now as an expert player of bandy (a form of hockey), a proficient swimmer in the local holes-which go by such picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager...
Born. To Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, England's No. 1 tennis amateur and Phyllis Konstam Austin; their first child, a girl, in London. Next day, after staying up late to welcome his daughter, Tennist Austin defeated California's Gene Mako in the fourth round of the Wimbledon Championships...
...Brains need oxygen, which they get from the blood. At the time of birth, a child's breathing may be disturbed and his brain starved of oxygen because his mother took too much drug to allay the pains of childbirth. Said Dr. Frederic Schreiber of Detroit: the difference between a living infant with a brain damaged from this cause and one that is born dead is probably only a matter of degree...