Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens of the U. S. can thus be legally married in Red Russia, why should they not be divorced there? Though no U. S. couple is known to have made the experiment, it was instructively performed last week by a Chilean, Señor Cesari Alvarez de la Revera. Smitten with love for one Martha Schmidt, his wife's sister, he sought a divorce in order to remarry...
...also destroy the tumor, or the fetus. Radium is also therapeutically destructive. Just what effect radium, or X-rays in their various doses have on the growing fetus has been an uncertainty among doctors. Few have experimented in this regard on animals and none, so far as is known, on humans...
Last week Dr. Percy W. Toombs of Memphis, Tenn., reported the known data in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In brief they are: 1) X-ray-ing for a few seconds to get a photograph does not harm the unborn child, unless photographs are taken too frequently; 2) X-ray or radium doses strong enough to cause sterility or to destroy tumors cause abortions during the early months of pregnancy, or during the end of term monstrosities (of eyes, brain or spinal cord); 3) the younger the embryo, the greater the damage done...
...suspicion. He caught some of the small black fish, kept them all winter in a pool, cried "I told you so " when they grew silvery salmon scales in the spring. The mystery was solved for Scotland and the rest of the civilized world. Amerindians and Eskimos had, of course, known the secret since Manitou walked on earth and talked...
...ancient, shady ancestry is the Devil. As Egypt's Serpent Apap, he crawled at dark by the Nile while flames shuddered in his thin trail. In Babylonia, even fools dared not prate of him when he was known as "the lady Nina." His was the god-defiance of Prometheus, the malice of Ahriman. Still as Siva he destroys...