Word: frontierisms
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...year that Congress passed its first law. the settlers on the U. S. frontier, instead of hiring contractors to build their houses, used to invite neighbors from miles around...
Neither cheerful nor proud was Papa Ovila Dionne last week at his frontier farmhouse near Callander, Ont. as his five little daughters went into a third recordbreaking week of life, to the marvel of the medical profession throughout the world. Marie, the frailest, upon whom the others had rolled when they were all in the one butcher's basket, was the first one to be placed in an incubator all to herself. Five days later each of the other four had her private quarters and a better chance for life. Three trained nurses were...
From Toronto Dr. William motored the 230 miles to the frontier village where Dr. Allan has practiced for 26 years. In the car were three tanks of oxygen and carbon dioxide to stimulate the babies' breathing in case they turned blue again. The doctor brothers talked until all hours of the morning. "It looks to me," reasoned Dr. Allan, "as though they were uniovular . . . one placenta . . . cords of different length." Dr. William: "I agree...
...Allan Roy Dafoe. a stocky little grey-haired practitioner who has delivered some 1,500 children in frontier Ontario, leaped nimbly into his clothes when Ovila timidly rapped at the door. In the doctor's Dodge they drove back to the Dionne house...
...rough, nickel-loded, forest-fuzzed Canadian frontier at the east end of Lake Nipissing bulged large with spring's fertility last week. The full moon with Venus, Mars and Saturn accompanying swelled pompously across the midnight sky. And in a lamplit farmhouse near Callander a buxom French-Canadian woman of 24 whimpered with the unusual fullness of her womb. She, too, had three attendants-her aunt, another goodwife who had borne 17 children, and her husband Ovila Dionne. Upstairs in bed were the two boys and three girls of the Dionnes. Four years in his grave lay their sixth...