Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blew away the famed Jacobs Ladder trestle on Mt. Washington. Dumping trillions of tons of rain on New England, the hurricane swelled rivers already swollen by three days of ordinary rain. Highways and railroads were washed out. In the Connecticut Valley cities marshaled sandbag brigades. Hartford held its breath while the dike by the Colt Arms factory held through a flood stage 36.45 feet. In the Thames Valley, Norwich, Conn., isolated, was supplied with food and medicines by airplane...
...Klondike's" temperature rose to more than 150° F. in the "treatment cells, bedlam raged. Tearing their clothes off, gasping for breath, the tortured men roared and screamed for hours. When guards came with breakfast the third day, they found 21 of the prisoners unconscious, four (two in each of two cells) dead on the floor-bruised, gouged, discolored, parboiled...
Cause of plague is an oval-shaped germ called Pasturella pestis. Two main types of the disease are recognized: bubonic plague, transmitted by fleas, which causes inflammation of the lymph glands; and the deadly pneumonic plague, which may be transmitted by bites from infected animals, or the breath of infected humans. Pneumonic plague usually enters through a bite in the arm, travels rapidly to the lungs and spleen. The patient has a high fever, coughs constantly, cannot get his breath. Usually in three or four days he is dead. There is no specific treatment for plague patients. Antiplague serum, made...
...church at heart. . . . These other agencies offer women an opportunity for leadership, for creative expression . . . and in turn a recognition which they do not find within the church. Until the men of the church recognize this fact, to deplore the defection of women will largely be wasted breath...
Fifty years ago, when the biggest national advertisers were patent-medicine manufacturers and an annual appropriation of $100,000 was regarded as a breath-taking extravagance, George Presbury Rowell started publishing a pocket-size semimonthly journal for advertisers, gave it the chaste title Printers' Ink. U. S. business was feeling the faint stirrings of the machine age. Advertising was destined to become the midwife for mass distribution and Printers' Ink soon became a handmaid for advertisers. Today, Printers' Ink, still pocket-size, is a weekly with 17,803 subscribers who spend nearly all of the nation...