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...matter of fact, these dog fanciers are a pretty shifty breed, tall, gaunt folks with an option on half the unborn thoroughbred pups in North America. But the dogs themselves are a pleasant, patient lot who accept graciously some small attention and stand stoically as their masters brush, comb, chalk them, or hack away at their toenails...

Author: By Ernest L. Carswell, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

...couldn't stand his crying," pudgy Georgette Brucks, 21, was sentenced to from one to ten years in jail. She offered to submit to sterilization if granted probation. Los Angeles' Judge Thomas Ambrose so ordered it. Georgette also agreed to have one surviving child, and one yet unborn, put up for adoption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Allowing for different customs and conditions, it would be much the same this week with most of TIME Inc.'s 278 members overseas. For them, the celebration of 1949's advent will be tempered by the responsibility of reporting the as yet unborn events of the coming year and by the hardships of the peoples among whom they live and work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...positive blood some substance that distinguishes it from Rh-negative blood. At last she got a "lipid" (fat-like compound) which she believes to be a "hapten" (a neutralizer of antibodies). Injected into a pregnant woman whose Rh-negative blood has formed antibodies against the incompatible blood of her unborn Rh-positive baby, hapten protects the baby's blood, and allows him to be born in normal health. Injected into a living but erythroblastic baby, it quickly restores the baby's blood to normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baby Saver? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...theological haggling over the virtue or sin of Dr. Perl, no one seems to have noted that the unborn babies were doomed in any event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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