Word: concussional
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She began to show her true mettle when two main battery turrets-six 16-inchers -were fired in salvo. The concussion sucked the back off a newsman's camera, pulled the lenses out of a pair of binoculars. But by that time every superficiality that was shakeable had been...
> Says Dr. Miller, detonation of bombs often causes definite brain injury in persons near by. But today, instead of shell shock, doctors call it blast concussion. The force of a bomb exploding may exert suction or compression on the abdomen, violently displacing fluid in the brain, sometimes ruptures tiny cerebral...
Of the three students, Gardiner was most seriously hurt, receiving a bad concussion. McVeigh suffered knee injuries and facial lacerations while Emmett received severe cuts about the head.
David Middleton '43 of Lowell House and New York City, who was thrown from the rear seat of a motorcycle early Sunday morning in a collision with an auto, is recovering rapidly from a slight concussion at the Cambridge Hospital on Mt. Auburn Street. Although placed on the danger list...
Terese Armstrong, 23-year-old British Legation stenographer, had also lost an arm, but death did not come to her for more than 30 hours. Instantly killed were four Turks, two of them hotel porters. The toll of wounded was 30. British First Secretary James Lambert was badly burned, slightly...