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...unsafest place in the world to have a baby. Some reasons: abortions; faulty technic of physician or nurse, resulting in puerperal infection; lack of sufficient good maternity hospitals; insufficient obstetrical training for the general physician; inadequate prenatal care; prevalence of attempts to shorten labor by use of pituitrin to quicken uterine contractions, application of forceps, turning of the baby, forced dilation of the cervix, caesarean operations...
...depositors in accordance with a vigorous and highly successful attempt to make the bank safe for depositors. If the loans are never paid back, the bank's stockholders will suffer, not the depositors. Example: whether to "close out" a frozen loan at a loss or to attempt to quicken it back to life is a banker's daily problem. On Cuban Sugar, the bank decided wrongly. But again, no depositor suffered, for the very reason that the risk was transferred from the bank to security affiliate. And as for stockholders: the bank stock they secured...
...Quicken, Not to Hurry ." Having criticized itself and others, the Bar Association was ready to hear the U. S. Law criticized by its chief guest. This he was, of course, much too polite and Distinguished to do. In Constitution Hall, with aged Frank Billings Kellogg presiding, Lord Reading delivered an extremely graceful, circumlocutory and boring address, a brilliant example of how dull a great and able man can be at a formal function. He recalled his distinguished U. S. friendships, expatiated on the profession, on India, on Anglo-U. S. understanding and world depression. Only with the politest indirection...
...imprisoned in the kiva. The priests dip them into jars of a sacred liquid, allow them to dry, then put them into dry jars to await the ceremony. All night long before the appointed day the drums beat slowly, mournfully while the Hopi fast. In the morning the drumbeats quicken. Finally appear twelve priests, their bodies painted, their faces stained grotesquely. Heads down, they dance toward the door of the kiva, then back, then forward again until they halt before the door guarded by eight old, ash-smeared priests. There is a moment of silence and suspense. Then slowly...
...parting we pause, then quicken our stride...