Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newborn baby breathes 62 times a minute, the rate of a grown rabbit...
Washington Crash. For a pre-Christmas surprise to friends and family, three men planned a flight from Washington, D. C., to Massachusetts-Representative William Kirk Kaynor, who had never flown before, to visit his family; Stanley B. Lowe, his secretary, to get first sight of his newborn child; Arthur A. McGill, a friend, to remarry. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison loaned them the trimotored Fokker which he always used himself. Pilot was Capt. Harry A. Dinger, "who had more experience in piloting trimotored transports than any other pilot in the Army Air Corps." Mechanic was Buck Private Vladimir...
...convicted poultrymen face a maximum sentence of one year in jail, $5,000 fine. One wily poultryman, hoping for a light sentence from Judge John Clark Knox, named his newborn son John Clark Irwin Rosenstein...
Preventive Work. The U. S. society and the Red Cross are trying to reduce the world's incidence of blindness by preventive work-by educating mothers and communities to the use of silver nitrate on every newborn's eyes, by getting children's eye clinics established, by teaching teachers to recognize impaired vision, by trying to eradicate trachoma, by preventing accidents and eye strain in industries...
...them adequate protection. Farm representatives called it a "risky experiment." Senator Smoot's co-author of the Tariff Bill, Congressman Willis Chatman Hawley of Oregon, complained the plan should not "be even considered." Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison commented sarcastically on the "fretful condition of this newborn sugar baby." "Certainly," said he, "the sleepless nights Senator Smoot must have spent with this crying curiosity . . . entitle him to a rest...