Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Renshaw and their three children live on a farm in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. The farm business was bad three years ago, and the Renshaws' luck was worse. After 30 years on the farm, Mr. Renshaw was about to lose his land by foreclosure. He got cancer of the face. All his horses died. He broke his arm. His car went to pot. He had to sell his hogs for practically nothing. When the subject of patriotism came up at school, his son James, 14, said the hell with the U. S. and The Star-Spangled Banner. The loan...
...time the paper looked into the case of the Renshaws, they were doing well again. Wallaces' Farmer ("Henry A. Wallace, Editor, on leave of absence as Secretary of Agriculture") noted with pleasure that a Government loan plus plenty of pluck had enabled Mr. Renshaw to have his cancer treated, buy more livestock, retrieve his farm. "The Lord helps those who help themselves, and we have tried to make the best of what we have," said Mrs. Renshaw...
...those whom it tears apart are sometimes not conscious of it until too late. Vaguely, Vag remembered reading of termites who burrow unseen within a beautiful and apparently strong house; then, suddenly, the house collapses. It was something like that with people. Jealousy, like a poison--perhaps like a cancer; but worse, since a cancer, if discovered early, can be cured--constantly, subtly tries to gain acceptance in the mind. Once the entering wedge is injected, every incident, every word, every expression can be twisted to the support of a pre-determined conclusion...
Every year, to save their lives from cancer of the larynx, 400 people in the U. S. have their Adam's apples removed. The stump of windpipe which remains is turned over and pulled through a hole in the front of the neck, at the point where a collar button usually rests. Through this hole larynx-less patients (mostly men) do their breathing. But they cannot talk aloud, for their breath gushes up in a storm from their lungs, whistles out through their necks, and first requirement for speech is a vibrating column of air in the throat. They...
...Tuberculosis and Health Association, new conducting its thirty-third annual Christmas seal sale, sheets of the well-known stamps through the mails. Since "tuberculosis is no longer the white man's plague," part of the proceeds will go towards education of the public about other fatal diseases such as cancer and syphilis...