Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pregnant woman is not "sick," the Internal Revenue Service ruled-at least not for the purpose of the new tax law, which allows up to $100 weekly in sickness pay or benefits to be deducted from income in figuring taxes...
...high hurdles), Manhattan College's trackmen ran off with enough third places to take the 34th annual intercollegiate A.A.A.A. championship. Deciding event: the two-mile relay (won by Syracuse U.), in which Manhattan's anchor man, Tom Lindgren, took time out between heats to rush his pregnant wife to a hospital,* came back to help earn a vital third. Final scores: Manhattan 27, Villanova 22½, Penn State...
...novel, The Confidence-Man is a near miss, one of those pregnant and provocative failures that prove more rewarding to read than a whole litter of lesser writers' tidy but empty triumphs. Austere and philosophical, it sometimes seems all head and no tale. Despite its dire point of view, the book jests and jostles with life, and really belongs with the sardonic comic charades of Swift, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and Ben Jonson's Volpone. Like them, it is a kind of cosmic hangover suffered by a man who-having drunk overfull of the human race...
Most laboratory tests for pregnancy work on the same principle: detection of a key hormone, chorionic gonadotrophin, found in the urine of a pregnant woman. A concentrate of a urine specimen is injected into a test animal (frog, rabbit, mouse); if present, the hormone will cause a recognizable reaction in the sex glands. If there is no reaction, the patient is presumed not pregnant. But no method is foolproof-frogs injected only with distilled water have developed reactions. Some tests (e.g., the Friedman test using rabbits, the Aschheim-Zondek test with mice) are highly accurate, but require...
...Morris test gives more than a yes or no answer: by measuring a pregnant patient's hormone level, it also indicates whether she is likely to suffer a miscarriage. If her chorionic gonadotrophin level is low (below 6,000 units), a miscarriage can be expected. Testing 2,000 cases, the Yale doctors correctly predicted 83 miscarriages well in advance...