Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud are Netherlander that their Crown Princess is about to become a mother that thousands of loyal subjects sent each other Christmas cards on which a stork with a child is seen entering the gates of the Royal Palace...
...doll last week to the Miners' Federation of South Wales where King Edward VIII once popularized himself, declaring "Something must be done for Wales!" (TIME, Nov. 30, 1936, et seq.). The doll, instructed the Duchess, is not to be raffled off for charity but given to the child of an unemployed Welsh miner. "Will the little mother of this doll," wrote Last Year's Woman, "kindly name it Wallis?" During 1937 the $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin on which King Edward and Mrs. Simpson cruised was bought by King Carol of Rumania for his henna-haired Mme Magda...
...Shanghai veteran correspondents reported scenes of "filth, disease, hunger and madness" among the 1,000,000 Chinese refugees from battle areas. In a single theatre 14,000 have been living like vermin for weeks. Biological processes continued: among the 1,000,000 refugees a child was born every minute, there was a death every three minutes, and twelve mothers died in childbirth every hour...
...religious reformer, a groundbreaker for Stalin. The picture places boisterous emphasis on Peter's essential democracy, particularly his wiving of the Lithuanian commoner who later became Catherine I. Colossal capstone: Peter, toasting Russia's bright future, publicly bussing the bare bottom of Catherine's first-born child...
...York City every year, and of these about one-fifth-43 per day-come to the attention of the medical examiner. Many of them are newborn babies abandoned in doorways, rubbish heaps, lavatories. To establish a presumption of infanticide, it is necessary to show that the child was not born dead. The autopsy surgeon removes the lungs, places them in a basin of water. If the child lived even briefly after birth, his lungs will contain air and will float; if not, they will sink...