Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invention and manufacture of super-combustibles. So numerous were the explosions and fires which wrecked their laboratories that the Swedish Government forbade them at one time to experiment on Swedish soil. Undaunted, they anchored a laboratory-barge in the middle of Lake Malaren, near Stockholm, and continued their death-pregnant experiments...
...Rome there had been farewells pregnant with import and seasoned with emotion. Count Volpi was closeted secretly with Benito Mussolini just before his departure. And the whole Cabinet except Mussolini, assembled at the station to see him off. There was kissing. There were cries of "Viva Volpi! Viva Italia...
...Geneva and at Paris diplomats dropped a pregnant word or two anent M. Caillaux's mission. "Set all question of figures and barter aside," said they. "If America expects any sum to be repaid by France over a period of 60 or 70 years, she is deluded. Grey-bearded men, yet unborn will not pay taxes to America in 1980. There was no Italy 60 years ago; will there be a France in 60 more? Sixty-two years ago the dollar was worth only a franc; it may be worth less than that in another...
...pregnant with prejudice is the mind of a man, not every U. S. citizen was enthusiastic about that first American Education Week in history. The National League of Women Voters, for example, refrained last year from participating in the festivities of Constitution and Patriotism Days, declaring that they found distasteful some of the anti-radical slogans coined for those days and that they felt the Bureau had committed an impropriety in sharing the Week's authorship and conduct with the American Legion. The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom felt the same way about it. Also...
...general situation in Eastern China remained, as it has for the past few weeks (TIME, June 15 et seq.), pregnant with ugly possibilities. The Chinese did a great deal of agitating. Foreigners took many steps to secure safety of life. Both sides engaged in desultory conversations which had no outcome. Strikes were maintained in practically all the seaboard cities. At Wukingfu, Kwangtung Province, one male and two female missionaries were beaten and knifed...