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Word: pregnant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condone the presence of strike breakers, some of whom have joined an A. F. of L. union. She said "the scabs" had called her bad names, she had even been told she might have her "puss mashed in with a sledge hammer." Recently she paid hospital bills for three pregnant wives of strikers. In a little over two months the Bijurs have spent over $3,000 supporting the strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Tenants' Revolution | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...though they are poor they are right. I am helping to avert a revolution in this country by feeding them. What we need to end labor strife is more religion, more charity and a greater obedience to the will of God. ... Six more of the strikers' wives are pregnant, and it looks as if I will have quite a hospital bill by summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Tenants' Revolution | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...addressed to London and Berlin via short wave, they contain far more than appears on the surface. And considered in the light of what has very recently become American public opinion, the President's entire treatment of foreign policy and defense in his annual message to Congress is pregnant with meaning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA AND THE WORLD--1939 VERSION | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

...Pregnant result of last week's elections is that two years hence, when another President is created, the Republican Party will be back in the running with 15 new gubernatorial machines. Losing only three Governorships, and retaining three, the G.O.P. had a net gain of eleven over last year. Five of them are in key States of the Industrial East and Midwest, three in important farm States, three in the Mountain States, one on the Pacific Coast. In 1940 these new Governors may be of prime political importance. Some of them are (see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: States' Men | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...five children shall have the things he missed-a decent allowance and tolerant understanding-he successfully conceals his shock when they get drunk, when his oldest son confesses to having a mistress. With heroic effort he swallows his chagrin when his favorite daughter goes off to Hollywood, returns pregnant but unmarried. But when two of his children confess they are Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flexible Father | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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