Word: pregnants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls who spent the night with them. They gave them the best jobs, or reported they had loaded twelve cars to meet their work norm, when they loaded only ten. There was no regular hospital at the mine, but they had a twelve-bed lying-in hospital for the pregnant girls. The girls kept the children in the house till they were about five. After that, the children were put in the state school. It was a big thing to have a baby. They told us it was a work for peace. When the Imperialists killed a Hungarian...
...insulin or penicillin. The announcement dealt with work done by Dr. Eli D. Goldsmith, chairman of the academy's biology section, on a chemical that stops pregnancy in mice without doing any apparent harm to the animals. Given to the mice in their diets after they have become pregnant, it causes the fetus to be "resorbed" without any apparent harmful effect...
...simple urine test for pregnancy (TIME, May 2, 1949). Rapp decided to see whether any secretions besides urine showed pregnancy. He tried tears and sweat, found them no good. Saliva seemed to be a flop, too: half the results were negative, even with women known to be pregnant. Dr. Rapp decided to forget about it, and put the work aside...
...check his theory, Dr. Rapp has since tested 400 women five to six months pregnant, and 92% of his predictions have been right. (The test is no good for diabetic women, and can be thrown off by drugs such as aspirin.) Dr. Rapp still considers his findings "preliminary." But recently, when his wife had a baby son, her doctor came hustling out of the delivery room with the happy news that Rapp was right again...
...religion of Jarmo had probably changed to fit the agricultural life. In its ruins are no idols or magic pictures designed to improve the hunting. In their place are many female figurines, naked and obviously pregnant-proof that the' farmers and herdsmen of Jarmo had already developed a fertility cult...