Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finds herself with child by the handsome son of the local hardware merchant, shortly after that worthy departs for the wars. The attitude of her father, an honest, independent man of simple and intense feelings, changes from shame at the slight on his family name to pride in his newborn grandson. Similarly, the cool indifference and suspicion displayed by the young man's parents toward the well-digger and his daughter is changed, upon the receipt of a false report of his death, into friendship and love for the infant who is their only link with their departed son. There...
...church calendar, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, commemorating the killing, by order of King Herod of Judea, of Bethlehem's children under the age of two years. Herod's aim: to kill the newborn Jesus Christ, heralded as the new King of the Jews...
...newborn baby was pale, jaundiced. At Adelphi Hospital, Brooklyn, blood expert Alexander S. Wiener quickly made tests, found that the baby's blood was Rh positive, the mother's Rh negative.* Unless something was done quickly, the baby would probably die of erythroblastosis in a few hours. Dr. Wiener decided to change the baby's blood...
...cheeks. Its blood vessels were slowly flushed clear of Rh blood (though a little remained, mixed with the donor's). Dr. Wiener let the flow continue until the concentration at the outgoing end was 90% new blood; in effect he drained and refilled the baby twice. (A newborn infant has about half a pint of blood.) After two and a half hours he handed back to the mother a healthy, rosy child...
...automaking partnership between the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. and the Graham-Paige Motors Corp. was lopsided from the start. Newborn K-F quickly raised $53,000,000 in two stock issues. But old, financially queasy Graham floated only $11,500,000 in bonds to finance its part of the venture. By last week production delays had so cut into this cash that Graham could not go on without help...