Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Science and the occult have revealed many strange coincidences, some so unusual that they are pregnant with mysticism and also savor of the supernatural. Such a case appears in TIME. Imagine my amazement when I read in your issue of Dec. 13 a letter identical with mine which you printed Dec. 28, 1936, conceived word for word by another just as it had come to my mind, but exactly one year later-truly an amazing coincidence...
...London dinner guests, the Earl of Mansfield, reputable British ornithologist, told how the local birthrate had soared after he stocked his Dumfriesshire estate with storks. Two housewives barren ten years were barren no longer, another became pregnant 15 years after the birth of her last child. His storks now dead, the Earl explained he would not import a fresh batch because "my workers have told me rather forcibly that, if I do, they will shoot the whole...
...part of the program of the Central Association of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, Dr. Morris Edward Davis of Chicago announced that he can make certain women, who are sterile because their ovaries produce no ova, capable of having babies by injecting them with serum taken from the blood of a pregnant mare. Dr. Davis' mare serum hormone in unascertained fashion reuses the ovaries to their natural functions. Said he last week: "We have positive proof that a single injection of this hormone is enough to provide full development and ovulation. This opens a tremendous field. We can overcome sterility in many...
...Idaho Falls, Idaho, Eldon Cleverly was sentenced to jail for attempted rape. His pregnant wife promptly went to Boise, paraded through the State Capitol corridors, announced: "I will walk up and down till something is done for my husband. I'll have my baby in the hallways." Impressed, Governor Barzilla Clark let it be known that he would appeal to the State Pardon Board for the prisoner, because "such action on my part may be warranted...
Although Dr. Matsner thus withheld some information of interest to women, he was frank about the uses of his toads. When away from their native habitat they will not lay eggs naturally. However, if they receive a hypodermic injection of urine from a pregnant woman they invariably produce a few eggs. Non-gravid or male urine fails to affect them. "Therefore," smiled Dr. Matsner, "at 16? apiece they are the cheapest, most reliable indicator of pregnancy which we have- cheaper than rabbits or guinea pigs, which must be killed before they reveal the uncertain woman's condition: more reliable...