Word: comas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such agonies are not enough, he has to pay for it. As our boy comes out of his coma the lewdly grinning villain, a bona fide member of Barbers local hands him the bill, the boy faints. It shouldn't happen to a Freshman...
...same class for the third successive term. She stopped on her way to class at her aunt's home . . . every morning and surreptitiously took drinks [of liquor] in increasing number till she was found to be sleeping through class. Finally, she never reached school, falling in a coma on a street corner...
...Frankenstein is dead, but the monster lives on forever and only a little warmth is needed to bring him out of an ice-cake coma. Lon Chaney does the honors to this former Kario: monopoly but no one could ever recognize a person under that mound of greasepaint and sponge-rubber anyway. Bela Lugosi as the wolfman who finds warm blood and moonshine a most stimulating combination, grows progressively more and more, and less and less hirstute as the moons wax and wane...
...Howard Atwood Kelly, 84, last of the four great physicians who headed Johns Hopkins Medical School's original faculty in 1889, died of heart disease last week. A few hours later the wife he married in Danzig in 1889, Laetitia Bredow, died in a coma at the same hospital. One of their nine children, Dr. Edmund Bredow Kelly, now somewhere in the Pacific with Hopkins Base Hospital Unit No. 18, is the only descendant bequeathed to medicine by any of Hopkins' famed Big Four.* His young grandson and namesake was killed in action in Africa...
...intelligent, infinitesimal shrimp. But for medical researchers Daphnia has other charms than looks: under the influence of low concentrations of drugs such as strychnine or nicotine in the water, Daphnia swims erratically, does loop-the-loops; as concentrations increase, Daphnia gets convulsions, swims on its back, goes into a coma, dies...