Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City's Board of Education, whose bylaws require a teacher to begin a two-year, payless furlough as soon as she is aware of pregnancy, last week fined Teacher Weiner $300. Teacher Weiner's reported defense: not until the baby arrived did she know that she was pregnant...
...uncertainty, during which the vast financial reserves which caution has gathered can be placed behind the new ideas and methods developed by research, and we shall be on our way toward a higher standard of living. ... I affirm the duty of industrial leaders to hasten this development, so pregnant with good for all mankind. . . . The good life lies ahead somewhere along the road of abundance, and we shall find it by continuing in that direction with stout hearts and open minds...
...schooldays they had been friends and rivals. Hallem was self-centered, disagreeable, fiercely envious; Roiter brilliant, unselfish, easily preeminent. Twice Roiter had saved Hallem's life-once when he was publicly denounced for plagiarizing and had gone home to hang himself; again when Hallem had made a girl pregnant and she had died in an attempt at abortion. In their middle-age both had good wives, children they were proud of; they rarely saw each other. At their 35th class reunion they met for the last time. Roiter was speaker of the evening at the class dinner, envious Hallem...
Having come fresh from and pregnant with memories of the Ann Arbor May Festival, it was with no little satisfaction that upon reading your article on Frederick A. Stock [TIME, May 21] I realized that at last, after years of fruitless waiting, I had been present at the making of history-well, minor history...
...some land which had only cost him $1,000. Magniloquently, Henry gives his patient wife a thousand, his gambling brother-in-law another thousand, his son still another (no one in the cast had seemed fazed when it was announced that his son's little fiancee was pregnant). "And Henry," the darktown financier addresses himself, "hyeah's seven thousan...