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Miners liked the treatment so well that some drove 40 miles a day to get it. They reported immediate relief from the dry, hacking cough characteristic of silicosis. But whether aluminum dust will vanquish silica dust permanently, neither doctor nor miner could yet say. Nor had they yet found out whether it prevents tuberculosis, which often ends the silicosis sufferer's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dust for Dust | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...Kelly, boss-man of Chicago, sat nervously watching the second hand of the studio clock. As zero hour approached, he raked his fingers through his bushy hair, stripped off his tie and collar. Then, with a cough and a hawk, he stepped up to the mike. Boss Ed, aware of the radio success of New York City's Fiorello LaGuardia, was starting a weekly radio talk of his own, addressed to Chicagoans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kelly's Mouth | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gungs & Boms | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

There is the rich, resonant cough of the Navy's guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foxhole Fiction | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Into the Wind. In Cincinnati, Dr. Andrew L. Banyai reported that the human cough attains a muzzle velocity of 245 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 3, 1945 | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

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