Word: comas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though there is no reason to be over-optimistic about the extent of the tariff reductions which will be made, nevertheless Roosevelt's new bargaining position renders it conceivable that a quadrilateral monetary agreement can be reached to revive international exchange from its present coma. Nor is it beyond the realm of sanity to hope that the United States will be able to force a reasonable settlement of the aged war debt problem. Whatever the internal effects of the abandonment of the gold standard may prove to be, it offers a handy instrument for Mr. Roosevelt to wield...
Between Schaaf's crumpling in the ring and his death three days later he lay in coma. Dr. Philip Goodhart, professor of Clinical Neurology at Columbia, came in on the case as consultant. He found Schaaf's left side paralyzed. The condition of the fighter's eyes confirmed the diagnosis of a deep-seated lesion in the right side of the brain. To relieve pressure and explore the injury Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Columbia brain surgeon, cut a 3 1/2 in. disk from the right side of Schaaf's skull. Only a small hemorrhage was visible...
...past year saw the end of worthy old World's Work, the birth of an equally serious effort called Economic Forum. Outlook lapsed into coma from which it emerged New Outlook. Police Gazette ended a long senility spent in contemplation of a bawdy prime. In its place sprouted a crop of nasty weeds like Calgary Eye-Opener, published by the ex-wife of Capt. Billy Fawcett. Out went innumerable local sheets like Manhattan's Metropolitan Home Journal. In came innumerable others like William H. Hanna's respectable Minneapolis Opinion, scandal-mongering Detroit Merry Go Round and Hollywood...
...will soon begin to "run mad." first at any dog it sees, later in a set course (unlike the aimless circling of running fits), snapping silently at anything in its path. Some mad dogs snap so hard they break their teeth and jaws. The final stage is paralysis, coma, death. The normal course of rabies: one week. Best procedure with a dog suspected early: isolate, feed lightly, do not touch...
...picture scrupulously explains, zombies are a superstition. But it adds that "wherever there is a superstition, you will find there is also a fact." Voodoo is still esoterically practiced in Haiti. The Penal Code, Article 249, reads: "If, after the administration of such substances [drugs to induce a coma-like death] the person has been buried, the act shall be considered murder, no matter what result follows." No scientist has investigated zombies. But reports indicate that the term means people who have died of disease, old age or wounds and. before decomposition, been reanimated. White Zombie combines voodoo murder prac...