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...Child of witches burned in Brittany, Bilby's Doll is haunted in Salem by the stench of their burning flesh, remembers their Black Masses, and says the Lord's Prayer backward. Thereupon the impish child is accused of withering the fruit of her foster-mother's womb, and of casting a fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff for fantastic poppets; Ahab...
...days in the future, by a ruling passed during the present sitting. **There are three main methods by which human beings may be prevented from propagating the species. In the case of Miss Buck, a surgeon will sever the Fallopian tubes, which function as passages from ovaries to womb. This surgical operation is known as salpingotomy. Surgical sterilization of men consists of cutting the spermatic cord, causing atrophy of the testicles. The third method, applicable to both men and women, is X-ray sterilization. As a result of X-ray treatment, organs of reproduction become atrophied. The X-ray process...
...Napoleon's intense desire for a legitimate heir* caused him to divorce Josephine, marry Marie Louise of Austria. Said he, on hearing of the prolific reproductivity of Marie Louise's ancestors: "That's the kind of a womb I want to marry." Marie Louise bore him a son, L'Aiglon, who died...
...Robert Andrews Millikan of the California Institute of Technology told the Academy about a new ray which he had discovered-a ray which begins in eternity. Born beyond space, in some dim interstellar vestibule behind the gates of the discoverable universe, out of a womb still swollen with gas, perhaps with litters of uncreated stars, the Millikan Ray stabs earthward, traversing aerial shambles strewn with the debris of mutating solar systems, planes where (according to schoolboy definition) parallel lines may meet, and voids in which time, unhinged, spins like a tiny weathervane in an everlasting whirlwind. What bred...
...Misfortune-to others-has been largely the foundation of the Coolidge career. Each of his greatest advancements came directly from the womb of tragedy...