Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quiet Game. Two years afterwards Nadelman married a rich woman, settled down in a Riverdale, N.Y. mansion. When friends came to call and asked "what he was doing," he proudly showed them his raspberries. Neighbors knew him as a man who liked a quiet game of bridge...
...look at a painting, said the experts, is that they can't see the leaves for the tree-and consequently don't recognize what kind of tree it is. Said Novelist Aldous Huxley: "A person who looks at a Titian solely because it represents a naked woman is not getting the full content of the picture...
About 85% of the white race have the mysterious Rh factor in their blood. These people are called "Rh-positive." The rest, with no Rh factor, are "Rh-negative." When an Rh-negative woman marries an Rh-positive man, their child may be Rh-positive, inheriting its blood type from the father. The two types of blood are potentially incompatible...
...three, worked for four years to isolate from the red cells of Rh-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...
Perhaps the most satisfying moment the office had last year came when a woman walked in with a postal card. It was from the concentration camp in Poland where her husband was interned and it was written in Polish. She spoke only French. A quick look through the files and Holt phoned a student language expert, who translated it from Polish to English. A second man was called to put it into French...