Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outstanding among their pregnant remarks is what may be thought of as an exemplary application of President Conant's principle of roving professorships. The suggestion that the new school take most of its faculty from members of the faculties of existing schools, is a fitting tribute to the public administration minds already in the service of Harvard, a recognition that such minds are hard to find, and a provision for the highly desirable correlation of this school with the rest of the University. The borrowing of courses by the new school from the old ones and the interchange of students...
...Oakland distracted young Horatio Randall shot his pretty estranged wife Elsie in the head. Elsie was almost nine months pregnant. Less than ten minutes before she died, Surgeon Clarence Augustus De Puy delivered her by Caesarean section of a robust...
Some few facts, nevertheless, have become transparently evident. First, and probably less important, there have been renewed clashes on the Manchurian border since the signing of the Japanese-German military alliance. The second, concerning Suiyan Province, is pregnant with significance...
...place in a barn. When it is over, Mavis Arden decides that she will take the young inventor back to Hollywood. Her plan is frustrated by Pressagent Stevens. By dangling tiny garments in front of her, he convinces her that the young man's fiancée is pregnant, causing Mavis to snort: "Fine goings on around here!" By the time she learns that the young man's relations with his fiancée are not premature, the situation has considerably changed. She loses interest in both the inventor and the Congressman, rides off wrapped around the pressagent...
...more suitable than to marry them off. Flora soon weds a young officer in the Navy. Pam's young man turns out to be a cad; he leaves her on the verge of becoming a husbandless mother. When an accident kills off Flora's ensign, Flora, also pregnant, dies of the shock. Painful but convenient, the circumstances of her death - in Italy where both sisters are holidaying - make things much easier for Pam. She comes back to London with her baby, explains that it is Flora...