Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A few years ago railway police began to notice that more & more big locomotives were having accidents at the Crewe yard. A check of timecards showed Harley had been on duty whenever an accident occurred.
The fight for the heavyweight championship was just a week away. The accident of war had given it the longest, (five year) buildup in history and canny Promoter Mike Jacobs, who generally knows what the traffic will bear, had scaled ringside seats at an imposing $100 apiece.*
Spleen Serum. The serum is extracted from the blood of horses which have been injected with spleen cells and bone marrow from young, healthy persons who have died by accident. "It is not an elixir of long life," insisted Bogomolets last week, "but something that fights the enemies of longer...
Like so many research triumphs, this one had been almost an accident. Thirteen years ago a London, Ont. obstetrician named Evan Vere Shute became interested in vitamin E, whose natural sources are in whole grain; he had a hunch that it produced a salutary effect on heart and blood vessels...
Susan Peters, up & coming cinemactress partly paralyzed in a hunting accident last year, nuzzled her button-cute adopted son, Tim, for a memorable two-button picture (see cut). He came to her by air, and he was just the start, said she; she planned "lots of brothers and sisters" for...