Word: unbornable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smoking even to excess can lead to" that termination of pregnancy. More boys are born alive than girls. More male fetuses are aborted than female fetuses. Some investigators believe that this preponderance of male conceptions over female conceptions is nature's way of compensating for the fact that unborn males are less sturdy than unborn females. Dr. Taussig scoffs at this theory of "genetic weakness" in males. Concerning male abortions he reasons that male fetuses make heavier demands on the mother's body, which she cannot always endure. Another Taussig explanation: female hormones in the mother...
...this tense atmosphere, the George Washington of the Philippines spoke, to 250,000 of his countrymen massed around, the words which unborn generations of Filipino schoolchildren will presumably have to memorize...
Heart. At Rockefeller Institute Dr. Carrel, with Dr. Montrose Thomas Burrows, elaborating methods developed by Yale's Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, duplicated the blood of a chicken so successfully that the famed piece of unborn chicken's heart began to grow & grow. If in the 23 years since that experiment started his assistants had not periodically pared the embryonic tissue and destroyed the parings, the whole earth might now (theoretically) be covered with a film of soft flesh...
...Meanest Mother," Frau Juenemann let her three young children starve to death in a cellar while she spent her last few marks making the rounds of Berlin's cheaper night clubs. Since Herr Juenemann is in an insane asylum, Germany's New Justice assumed that her unborn babe would be a debit to the race...
Paper is a hot subject in the South, partly because of the conviction that Northern newsprint "interests" are blocking the flow of capital to their unborn industry, partly because Southern pines- slash, loblolly, longleaf, old field and Virginia-sprout like weeds. Slash pine grows as much as 6 ft. in a single year. And ardent Southern piners like Chemist Herty claim that if cultivated like field crops, slash pine could be harvested five years from the planting of seedlings. Ordinarily slash pine can be cut for pulp at an age of ten to 15 years, as against...