Word: coughing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phoneticians have wasted a century raising an empty laugh over the spelling of cough. They have never knocked into our heads the simple fact that a letter saved in spelling is saved not once but millions of times. Millions of hours [are] now wasted in a sort of devil worship of Dr. Johnson...
There is the rich, resonant cough of the Navy's guns...
Into the Wind. In Cincinnati, Dr. Andrew L. Banyai reported that the human cough attains a muzzle velocity of 245 m.p.h...
...Neither sulfa drugs nor penicillin will cure or prevent tuberculosis, leprosy, typhus, tularemia, undulant fever, virus diseases (e.g., infantile paralysis), mumps (probably a virus disease), whooping cough, colds and influenza, pregnancy...
Hermann Goring's private plane was taken over by the French Health Ministry for a new service: two-hour junkets for children with whooping cough. The Ministry has a theory that high altitudes destroy pertussis germs...