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Word: yes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Council of the Medical Women's Federation asked 300 doctor-mothers: Is relief of pain in childbirth necessary? The overwhelming response, reported by the British Medical Journal: yes. Of 196 who replied, 184 were in favor of drugs in the delivery room; only eight were definitely against. The women who answered had a combined experience of 425 confinements. Of these, 66% were in hospitals or nursing homes, where it is easier to relieve pain; only 28% were at home.* But 21% to 36% wanted more relief from pain than they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Word from the Experts | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...there definitely is nothing left to say; except that somebody just walked in and wanted to know if Mary Martin was really that good. The answer is, "Yes...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: From the Pit | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

...passage of years, said Barth, had made him "definitely milder-in fact, more peaceable and readier to see that, after all, one is in the same boat with one's opponents . . . To say 'yes' came to seem more important than to say 'no' . . . Theologically, the message of God's grace came to seem more urgent than the message of God's law, wrath, accusation and judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theologian's Ten Years | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...just abut ready. He really should wear suspenders, but he would postpone that until chapter two; for the time being, he would have to keep seated. Vag carefully centered the blotters on the desk top, blew the dust off the top of the inkwell, and scratched his head. Oh yes, the foolscap, Rushing down to the corner, holding his pants up with one hand, he piked up his tuxedo and 100 sheets of watermarked bond. Cleaned and pressed they were; he piled them on his bed, but placed a whisk broom drawer , brought out and unlocked a small steel case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

Professor Bridgman pointed out that as a scientist he "was not prepared to make a direct answer" to the problems of values for modern man. Science can deal only with questions which can be answered by yes or no, he contended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hocking, Bridgman Discuss 'Values' | 3/5/1949 | See Source »

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