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Word: coughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Siberia, to which her Polish parents had fled to escape the Nazis, Pessel had been harried across Europe with her mother and grandmothers, ended up at war's end in a Berlin refugee camp. Half-starved and bloated with edema, her puny body had withstood pneumonia, whooping cough, heart disease and tuberculosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Children | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...Cough Up. In Moultrie, Ga., a suspicious policeman tapped the shoulder of a drunk, who promptly spat out about five dollars in nickels & dimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Skunk. Sherm was no stranger to the labor board. Back in 1937, nine of his waiters told the board that he had bounced them for joining a union; 2½ years later, the state court of appeals bounced them back to Billingsley, told him to cough up back pay. Four of last week's six witnesses had been fired, a fifth had quit, the sixth had been suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...doesn't take long for him to bounce back, though. After he has eased his cough by sucking on an orange, splashed around for 15 minutes in the shower, and stretched out on the nearest bench of table, he is already looking forward to next week...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 10/8/1947 | See Source »

...take care of anything from croup to whooping cough, two children's health centers, sponsored by the U.S. Federal Security Administration, are currently available to the 1500 odd offsprings of veterans at the University. Located at 70 Mt. Auburn Street and at the Hygiene Department Offices in Harvardevens Village, the clinics are dispensing free examinations, immunization, treatment, and diagnosis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government Sponsors Health Clinics To Protect Veterans' Children Here | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

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