Word: unbornable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although all living creatures harbor germs, they generally acquire the germs after birth. Unborn animals strongly resist the invasion of germs. Therefore Professor Reyniers starts by putting a pregnant guinea pig into a germ-free operating chamber and by Caesarean section taking out her young. Those young he instantaneously puts into a sterile, airtight, air-conditioned cage. They nurse from a glass "mother," drinking sterile synthetic guinea pig milk of Dr. Reyniers' composition. The water and the solid food which they get later is also sterilized before being put into their cage. Portholes let Dr. Reyniers watch the guinea...
...urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary. Wounds and ulcers promptly heal under the bland influence of a remarkable chemical, allantoin, which such urine contains. Allantoin also occurs in beets and bruisewort, favorite folk remedies for cuts and ulcers...
...provided Naomi Jacklin (Katharine Cornell) with the material to build a mental barricade against her personal War tragedy. In 1914 she was in love with a poet. Life at the front so embittered him that Naomi came to believe he hated her. Accordingly, she did away with their unborn, illegitimate child. Later she heard that on his deathbed her lover had babbled a verse which began on a new note of hope. For 20 years Naomi wondered if there had been something in this unfinished poem to bring them together again. Playwright van Druten's answer comes from...
...Hongkong, police raided the sideshow of Tin Tsoi, woman ventriloquist, who charged three cents (Hongkong) to let customers talk with her unborn child. They found Widow Tin Tsoi telling patrons that the child had often, during the ten years of her pregnancy, refused to come into the world, inviting them to ask it questions. She was sentenced to six weeks in jail...
...origin of our earth as a ball of flaming matter, he traces its history to the present, pierces the atmosphere, travels to our moon, to the planets, to the sun, beyond our stars to stars infinitely greater, and finally to the nebulae, those gigantic whirling masses of worlds unborn, and thus in a sense returns to the beginning...