Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...business in the past, as it is a well-known fact that no family of samisen manufacturers lasts more than three generations. At present the largest dealer in Tokyo has been in existence for more than three generations but the head of the family has always been an adopted child...
...pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version of that affecting ballad, "Father, Dear Father Come Home with Me Now"; the verisimilitudinous fable of the aleful mother who staggered home with her child in one arm, a bag of meal in the other, threw the baby in the meal chest, the bag of meal in the cradle, woke to find the child dead, signed the pledge. And this, from 10,000 Temperance Anecdotes, justly entitled "A Curious Performance": "I once heard...
...noted that the average Russian woman, though the state does not demand she have any children, and means to prevent maternity are at her disposal every hour of the day, usually has at least one child...
Applications for operations are so numerous that "the woman will be asked to have her child" unless she: 1) is unmarried; 2) already has more children than she and her husband can support; 3) is nursing an infant...
...idea has spread abroad. Canada has six; Hamilton and London, Ont., Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and (new this year) Vancouver. Ottawa has a Canadian Council on Child Welfare, which technically is not a chest...