Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Auditorium, a physician who studies Indian medicine had brought along a billowing squaw, complete in deerskin dress and feathered crown. In the rear, a couple of muscular orthopedists patiently kneaded the spines of lopsided patients, naked except for brief trunks. Other side shows showed how to resuscitate the newborn, diagnose female sterility, guard the health of airplane pilots, bandage broken legs, banish early syphilis in five days...
Bittner took a number of newborn mice from Family A away from their cancerous mothers, set them to suckle immune mothers in Family B; then he set babies from the immune family to the breasts of females in the cancerous family. (None of these "wet nurses" had yet developed tumors.) Result: the young mice switched their cancer tendencies. Those who came from healthy stock developed cancer; those who were ordinarily doomed to cancer remained healthy. Their offspring were also healthy...
...things about the Centuries are undeniably true: i) new generations have constantly dusted off its well-worn prophecies to fit newborn events; 2) a reappraisal of its tempting quatrains is a sure sign of world crisis. Last time they got a good dusting was during World War I. Germans used Nostradamus to prove that they were sure to win; the French foresaw an Allied victory. But if Nostradamus foresaw that his shade would become a U.S. cinema star in World War II, he apparently forgot to mention...
...brunt of mistakes other than our own. But that has all changed. We now feel privileged to have been conceived in a period when we can not only watch, but take an integral part in, the awakening of a great democracy. Like the painful mass reactions of a newborn babe, the movements of our democracy are quick and wasteful, but we students are doing everything we can to speed and direct our country so that it may beat "that damned Hitler," as we call...
...hailed another car and took her to the hospital in it. At the hospital, it was discovered that the baby had already been born. Meanwhile, Farmer Joseph Siefert. on his way to town, saw something in the snow near the doctor's abandoned car. It was the newborn baby. He wrapped it in a blanket and rushed it to town. "We must have dropped him in the snow," announced the incredulous Dr. Smith. "The baby hasn't even developed a sniffle...