Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applicants which will continue for at least a month. Conscientious internes cranked and cranked at whirring centrifugal milk-testing machines. Zealous investigators checked the social status of each applicant lest some highborn peeress or ambitious bourgeoise sneak in. For by immemorial custom the two wet nurses assigned to each newborn child of the Son of Heaven, the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, must be of peasant status. At these two symbolic points in Japanese life the lowest and the most exalted meet...
...that the law specifically states that the throne shall go to the eldest son, does not specifically state that it shall go to the eldest daughter in case of a girl. Other papers taking it up, called for an Act of Parliament to fix the exact status of the newborn baby...
...prevent baby confusion, maternity hospitals write the baby's family name on a piece of adhesive tape and fix it to the infant's body; or fasten a string of lettered beads or stamped metal tag to the child's neck and mother's wrist; or both. Registering a newborn's foot prints is not very reliable, because foot prints are not distinctive for some time after birth. Newborn children clench their fists so tightly that finger prints cannot be made. Dr. Kegel last week suggested a novel idea: stencil the infant's foot in suntan from an ultraviolet lamp...
...Chicago, a Mr. & Mrs. William Watkins were startled last fortnight to discover on their new baby's back a bit of adhesive tape labeled "Bamberger." They telephoned to the hospital where Mrs. Watkins had lain-in, then to one Charles Bamberger & wife. Had their newborn son been labeled Watkins? Mr. & Mrs. Bamberger looked...
...Clermont-Ferrand, France, a fox terrier dragged a brown paper bag to a policeman's feet. Stooping to pat the dog, the policeman looked into the bag, found a newborn baby...