Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Ruth Harkness, 46, first person to capture a live giant panda; of acute alcoholism; in a Pittsburgh hotel bathtub. When in 1935 oil-heir husband William Hale Harkness Jr. died of cancer in Shanghai, spunky Manhattan Dress Designer Ruth promptly sailed off to continue his interrupted giant panda hunt, found a one-pound baby panda nestled in a Tibetan tree trunk, brought it back to Chicago's Brookfield...
...refuge for Europe's Jewish scholars, and the greatest center of Hebrew culture in the world (all its classes are conducted in Hebrew). Its professors have developed new processes for local industries, all but arrested many of the diseases that once ravaged Palestine, set up the first cancer foundation in the region, carried on vast irrigation projects to help Palestine's struggling agriculture...
...billion dollars yearly would almost do that. We wonder how far $2 billion would go towards feeding the hungry peoples of the world. Could a lasting peace be established if $2 billion yearly were given to the church for advancing Christianity in foreign lands? . . . Would $2 billion lick cancer...
...University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Gilson Colby Engel protested that many stomach cancer deaths are unnecessary. X rays and the gastroscope can detect all but 8% of early cancers, said he, but neither patients nor doctors understand the need for such examinations. The average stomach cancer victim does not consult a doctor until 15 to 16 months after his symptoms begin. Anyone who begins to feel weak and tired, to lose his appetite for meat and to have indigestion before or after eating would do well to be examined at once for stomach cancer...
Died. The Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell, 52, president (1940-46) of Notre Dame University, a letter man as center on the 1915 Irish eleven; of cancer; at South Bend...