Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every 100 women who become pregnant, the statistics show, some 85 will give birth to live babies after about nine months, and five will bear premature babies, of which four will live. But in the remaining one-tenth of all pregnancies, the women will lose their children by involuntary abortion before they are mature enough to survive independently. Why? And what can be done about it? In Spontaneous and Habitual Abortion,* published this week (Blakiston; $11). Dr. Carl Theodore Javert. a busy, unorthodox
...hesperidin (sold as a source of the controversial vitamin P) to discourage the premature bleeding which often signals (and may cause) abortions. He was one of the first to use tranquilizers. Impressed with the fact that many patients do not gain weight early in their pregnancies, but may actually lose, he encourages them to eat all they want then, watches later to make sure that the gain does not become excessive...
...Javert, father of two, prescribes other comforts in moderation-wine (in small doses as a sedative), singing and dancing, even tennis (preferably mixed doubles with husband as partner). And, to the relief of women who have spent as much as four or five months on their backs only to lose their babies anyway, he firmly opposes (except in the rarest of cases) one of the most onerous of all prescriptions: bed rest...
First Rites. Just about then, Cohn issued his edict. At a Hollywood party, Marilyn met a Columbia production assistant; he took her to see Maxwell Arnow, then Columbia's talent chief. Arnow inspected her with a routine but practiced eye, advised her to lose some weight and return. When he met her again by chance in the office of Agent Louis Shurr, she had lost the weight-at least enough for Arnow to see possibilities. He ordered a screen test, soon was excitedly telephoning colleagues: "I've got the girl." Against her parents' advice ("I never could...
...mythological flimflam, but to an editorial in the London Times. It was neither pride nor preoccupation with a job to do that gave the British their strength, says Fleming, citing the Times with approval; it was the universal understanding that all had lost something and would lose more, and that "now the days are all lived for their own sake...