Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...match was over they were talking about it on the veranda of the casino and over at the Greenbrier, using what they knew about the temperaments of the players, as much as their memory of what they had seen, to understand what had happened. It was an episode pregnant with questions of sportsmanship and it took place under the eyes of Joseph W. Wear, chairman of the Davis Cup Committee, in a quarter final match of the Mason & Dixon tournament at White Sulphur Springs, just three days before the 1930 Davis Cup team was to be selected...
...pregnant appeal of the movement is due to its recognition that the economic difficulty is a mathematical, not a moral difficulty, and that many of the popular panaceas advanced, like Socialism and Communism, are as futile as the efforts of a society for the prevention of spots in smallpox which refused to take any cognizance of the smallpox germ...
...girl, strong, passionate, beautiful. From her sailor father she inherits a reckless temper, an honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are enlightened and glad when she is pregnant before her time. Her lover comes to the fair; there is a brawl, her husband is killed. Effie marries the schoolteacher, who has always loved her; a few months later her child is born, but it is weakly, and soon dies. Then the supposed murderer of her first husband...
...There are, however, those who entertain belief that Balbino is not pregnant. They contend that the alleged pregnancy may only be an overgrowth of the flesh...
...whatever the scientists would say regarding the case, the people of Santa Rosa and the outlying districts of the barrio are positive that Balbino is pregnant six months...