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...brainchild needs nourishment. Its father recommended the study of "our national cultural history," hunted up money to pay expenses, then left it to take care of itself. Now, after three years, the American Civilization Plan is not yet a grown infant; indeed it is little more than a foetus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFANTICIDE | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

...Reason: more women go to hospitals for delivery now than ever before. However, added Dr. Runnels, the maternal death rate is still appallingly high in many sections of the U. S. One fourth of maternal deaths, he said, are caused by abortion and ectopic pregnancy (development of a foetus outside the uterus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Maternal Death | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Underlining the right answers to questions composes the major portion of the written grilling. Students in biological sciences should know of what does the placenta not permit free passage from mother to foetus. The sample test shows "blood corpuscles" underlined as the correct answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Students Are Subjected To Aptitude Tests Before Specializing | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

...right word for John. An 11-months' baby, he still looked like a foetus when he was born, had to be incubated. His parents soon found him a precocious handful, gradually came to the conclusion that John was a being superior to the normal. Because he needed money for his private schemes, he turned burglar at a tender age, committed his first murder at the age of 9 (self-defense: the policeman had caught him red-handed). He sold many an invention, cleaned up in the stockmarket before he was well into his teens. Unwary adults, engaging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homo Superior | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...Epic of American Civilization was Mexican mythology and the second coming of Quetzalcoatl, "the white Messiah of peace and understanding." To depict academic tradition in the U. S., without Quetzalcoatl, Orozco did Gods of the Modern World?robed skeletons watching an unclothed skeleton give birth to a skeletal foetus in a mortarboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dead from the Dead | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

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