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Word: hardtner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midnight when the Ray Munsells' family car, heading from Amorita, Okla. for the hospital at Hardtner, Kans., crossed the state line. In the back seat, Mrs. Ray Munsell Jr., 21, braced herself against sharpening labor pains, and reached out now & then to steady her three-year-old daughter Roberta, who was dozing beside her in a blanket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Night & the River | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...inches, and squeezed through. Then she reached in, pulled Roberta out. carried her through waist-deep water to the river bank, 15 feet away, and started walking. At 5:50, dripping wet and covered with mud, she reached Farmer Reuben Schupbach's dooryard. The farmer drove her to Hardtner at top speed, but Mrs. Munsell was too near her time for doctors to get her ready for the delivery room. At 6:40, still mud-spattered, she was delivered of a healthy, six-pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Night & the River | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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