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Word: pregnant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Denver Post, where he was next employed, discontinued its morning edition in 1928, Watson started back East in a second-hand flivver with his wife, then pregnant, and $25 capital. At Fremont, Neb. they ran out of gas and money, but got on to Chicago where Watson landed a job with the AP, which in time shifted him to its New York office. There his job, besides rewriting and editing, included important reporting assignments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guilded Age | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...novels, and one of them had sold as many as 15,000 copies. To get away from U. S. crassness -and expense-he had taken himself, his wife and their two sons to a Pyrenean village in the south of France. When royalty checks stopped coming, and Kate was pregnant once again, and credit at the butcher's and baker's grew narrower, Alec's creative flow dried up to nearly nothing. As household chores became major problems, his and Kate's intercourse became a continuous quarrel. At last he threw up the dry sponge, gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dead Scott | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Then Mary Cheffey, in the play the secret bride of a V.M.I. first-classman, burst in the room: "What is this, an interview? How cute!" She smiled at a delicate question and said: "I'm used to being pregnant eight time a week, but I get embarrassed when the audience laughs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playful Cast of "Brother Rat" Admits It Gets Kick from Every Performance of Current Success | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

TIME does not think that 66,000,000 Germans are fools. However, according to the Nation, recently the German Bureau of Vocational Guidance applied to the National Socialist People's Relief Administration to obtain support for more than 2,000 unmarried girls who had become pregnant on duty with the Landhilfe (farm labor brigades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1937 | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Sophie insisted on her facing the crowded breakfast table. From then on Sisi was on parade nearly every hour of the day. She hated it. More than anything else, she hated Sophie. And to Sophie, Sisi was never anything more than a bad bargain. When Sisi quickly became pregnant, Sophie scolded her for keeping parrots, said the sight of them might affect the child's looks. When Sisi's baby daughter was born, Sophie immediately snatched her away, kept her. "Give her the child?" said Sophie. "When she cannot even discipline herself? Never!" The same thing happened with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Franzi & Sisi | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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