Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says a dose of vinegar added to a cow's ration guarantees that her calf will be born robust, well furred, and with such inherited smartness that it will take water from a pail without teaching. By extension from animal to human husbandry, Jarvis contends that if a pregnant woman adds honey and vinegar to a well-balanced diet, her baby will have a thick shock of hair and long, strong fingernails, both needing to be cut the day it is born...
...childhood experiences in a reform school. His hero is a French schoolboy (Jean-Pierre Léaud), about twelve years old, who lives with his mother and father in a Paris tenement. Actually, the boy's father is just a man his mother married when she found herself pregnant-a nice, easygoing nobody who brings home a steady salary and doesn't ask too many questions. The mother herself is no better than she should be: a pretty, shallow blonde who consults only her own pleasure and takes it where the grass is greener. She works...
Jane Todd Crawford, 47, mother of five, was sure that she was pregnant again. But though her body swelled, she felt no quickening within her. Something was wrong. Surgeon Ephraim McDowell diagnosed Jane Crawford's trouble: no pregnancy, but a tumor. Only surgery might save her. McDowell had never heard of success in abdominal surgery of such severity, to remove a tumor of this size. The year...
...Victoria P. Coffey and William J. E. Jessop followed the histories of 1,326 women at three Dublin hospitals, half of whom had Asian flu while pregnant. Of 663 flu victims, 639 had normal babies while 24 had malformed children. Among an equal number of women who escaped flu, 653 had normal babies and only ten lad malformed children. There was no notable difference in the number of still or premature births. The malformations, concentrated among the women who had had flu in the first three months of pregnancy, were mainly in the central nervous system and included a disproportionate...
...short stories, articles, sketches and short novels displays few of his virtues and almost all of his melodramatic devices. It is chockablock with phantoms, haunts, ominous coincidences, infants lowered into tiny graves to ascend as tiny angels, would-be suicides snatched back at the dark river's edge, pregnant maidens abandoned by heartless cads. This is the Dickens who wrung out Victorian soap opera's dampest hour, and posted "cry now" signs at every chapter break...