Word: coughs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lorillard Co. ("Not a cough . . . .") -$2,490,786. Previous year...
...Organic heart diseases. . . . . . . . . . 126.9 128.3 Tuberculosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.9 83.8 Pneumonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.3 89.9 Bright's disease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.1 67.8 Cerebral Hemorrage . . . . . . . . . . . 54.3 20.4 Diarrhea and enteritis . . . . . . . . . . 15.8 20.4 Influenza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.6 25.6 Puerperal state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.2 10.4 Homicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 6.3 Typhoid Fever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 4.1 Whooping cough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.8 5.9 Measles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 6.6 Scarlet Fever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 2.0 Unspecified causes . . . . . . . . . . . . 206.1 211.0 -- -- Total...
...dear man, you've got a bad cough. I should suggest a few days in the Infirmary...
...speaker hesitated. Perhaps the self-consciously fixed stare of a banker across the table brought Mr. Bingham back to earth. Hesitation lengthened into a pause which Mr. Bingham ended with half a cough and half a chuckle. He had talked half an hour, he said, and would now stop...
...pall of Gray Sheep, softening the glare of its irony, warming it with humanity. The morning of Helen (Mrs.) Rain's funeral, the eaves sparrows quarrel as usual. (She would have liked that.) At John Rain's embarkation, the tugs whisper fuchsia, fuchsia, fuchsia; then cough cocoa, cocoa, cocoa as they push the ship to midstream. During a prayer at sewing circle, Helen Rain peeps covertly at the Women's varying technique-pinching bridge of nose; clasping stomach; kneeling thoroughly with head on chair-seat to present, Mrs. Rain thought, "a most remarkable...