Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular Light to mankind, would have grinned sardonically had he looked up through the floor of an official chamber in Manhattan last week. Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey of San Francisco was again asking the State of New York's Department of Social Welfare permission to open a cancer research laboratory and clinic at Huntington, L. I. (TIME, March 23). His cohorts surrounded him. Opposed were Dr. John Augustus Hartwell, president of the New York Academy of Medicine, spokesman for organized Medicine, and his cohorts...
These words were in the minds of all the students of Baylor University at Waco, Tex. last week. In a hospital three miles from the quiet campus their 67-year-old president, Dr. Samuel Palmer Brooks, was dying. Pain racked, his once massive frame gutted by an abdominal cancer, he was spending his remaining force for his University: putting his signature to 468 diplomas for this year's senior class...
...April 17, your realistic broadcast of a surgical operation caused havoc and considerable inconvenience in my home. When you enacted the scene of the operation on a young lady for a cancer and found that it was her heart instead, my daughter was about to faint but upon hearing that her mother had fainted quickly came to her senses. However my wife did not get over it for some time. It's just too real...
...Perhaps Prohibition is a dangerous complication. So is cancer. How silly it would be to disregard the symptoms of cancer! How silly it must be for the Democratic party to disregard the Prohibition issue...
Died. Kahlil Gibran, 47, Syrian philosopher, artist, poet (The Prophet, The Earth God; Jesus, the Son of Man); of cancer of the liver; in Manhattan...