Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feast days. Of the cures registered and checked by physicians before and after every health-seeking visit, none is a "first class" miracle involving growth of new bone tissue. Typical "second class" cures reported from the Oratory are restoration of sight lost from atrophied optic nerves, healing of tuberculosis, cancer, gangrene, paralysis, rheumatism. Now 89, frail, wrinkled Brother Andre is still officially no more than "caretaker" of the shrine. To visitors who seek him out as they did last week he invariably says...
...Morris Moore and Roy Louis Kile, workers at Barnard Free Skin & Cancer Hospital in St. Louis, last week confidently announced that they had proved that a germ one six-thousandth of an inch long causes dandruff...
...dramatist, was working at his desk when his death stroke came. Beethoven, the Titan, died shaking his fist at a thunderstorm. Brahms' end was more prosaic and not until lately was it described by his housekeeper, the only one who witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that a friend...
Fowler settled down again to his morning run-and-dip, his pipe, his work, his wife. As she grew older, both knew she was dying of cancer: neither ever mentioned the subject to the other. They lived in a cottage all their lives, never kept a servant. When she died (1930) he tried manfully to go on with his old-bachelor ways, but he was an old man himself by then. His morning run became a walk, then a snooze by the fire. Three years later, at the age of 75. Lexicographer Fowler quietly joined his lady...
...lately suffered a needle prick of the nail cuticle of my left index finger. This trifling injury gradually developed into an ulcer which today, after the lapse of one year, still does not show the least tendency toward healing." Day & night Professor Schwarz asks himself: "Have I a cancer? Should I have the finger...