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...resident of Bristol, was being tended in her final month of pregnancy. For nine years she and her husband Gilbert John, 38, a van driver for British Rail, had futilely tried to have a child. Now, finally, the Browns were on the verge of achieving their hearts' desire???in a most spectacular manner. Early in August, she is due to give birth by natural means to a child that her doctors say was conceived not in her body but in vitro (in glass) in a medical laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...DESIRE???Jean Fayard?Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baedeker Hollandaise | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...That being said, we desire???and I believe we shall succeed?to maintain friendly relations with all the world. And I believe, indeed, that it is only by a mixture of firmness and restraint that we can restore confidence and order in all the King's Dominions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easier | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

...books knows). He is something of a connoisseur of the arts (a. t. w. r. h. b. k.). He knows the fragrance and the names of rare perfumes (a. t., etc., etc.). First and foremost he seems to me, in his work, at least, to be animated by one desire???the wish to shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carl Van Vechten | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

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