Word: unborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring day last year, a young woman walked into the clinic of the Boston Lying-in Hospital. She had the "profile," said Dr. Robert Northwall Rutherford, of a woman five months' pregnant. Proudly she told the doctor about the lively kickings of her unborn child, which her husband had also noticed...
...been playing big-time tennis for 28 years-18 as an amateur, then as a pro. Now, after spending three of the past four years barnstorming around Europe, the Old Master is reappearing on a cross-country U. S. tour, playing opposite Don Budge, who was still unborn when Tilden won his first national (mixed doubles) championship. Last week the Old Master's legs were slow, his timing not so good, but to an admiring gallery he proved that he still has a few aces up his sleeve, showed flashes of bygone brilliance before losing the match...
...involved in war it may be that children yet unborn will be fighting on foreign battlefields, and that millions of American youth will pay the supreme sacrifice in China, Africa, and Europe. There is no such thing as a half-way war. Once war has been declared it will be total war, and a total war will mean dictatorship, bankruptcy, and the blackout of all American liberties and of our free institutions, and the advent of Fascism or national Socialism in America...
Neighbors. OF Man River flows south, but last week, both before & after this eloquent torrent, U. S. thoughts, good will and anxiety flowed north. For in the Dominion of Canada the future was stirring like an unborn baby. There were twinges in Canada last week of old confusions and new self-consciousness. The inescapable duality in Canada's international relationships-tied to the British Empire by heartstrings, to the U. S. by social propinquity and economics-was in the mind of every Canadian...
About a year ago you reported the case of a Y. M. C. A. secretary on the West Coast who claimed [income tax] exemption for an unborn child. This exemption was disallowed, but he appealed the ruling (TIME, Jan. 9, 1939) Wouldn't it be timely to report the present status of the case...