Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singing note amazingly long. Physiologically her body gets all the air it needs because, breathing more slowly than normal, she breathes more deeply. The average lung after a very deep inhalation contains five quarts of air. A person can never completely void his lungs of air. Even in death about one quart remains. In ordinary quiet breathing the average lung always contains a residue of two and a half quarts of air. Quiet inhalation adds a pint. Ordinary people use only three-fifths of their lung capacity. Miss Maclntyre, who breathes about a fifth as fast as her Goucher pupils...
...this period last year, and slightly more meningitis, scarlet fever. Smallpox also has increased considerably in 1929. But very few U. S. people now die of smallpox. During the last week of November, when the U. S. Public Health Service last compiled statistics, there was not one smallpox death reported in the entire country. At the same period there were 676 deaths from influenza and pneumonia, much less than last year...
...beautiful deep ravines or gorges . . .'as among the choicest physical assets of the university. . . . Every one who matriculates . . . will carry through after days their memory and spiritual influence." During his lifetime he gave some $200,000 to develop Cornell's campus. This autumn, just before his death, the trustees renamed the waterfalls of Cascadilla Creek in his honor. Last week Trustee Sackett's will was probated. He bequeathed some $750,000 to be known in perpetuity as the Sackett Landscape Fund...
...horses. Nothing can save them from dying or being shot down on the colorless sand, under the sun like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence is executed on each of them is the subject of The Lost Patrol...
Discontinued. The famed architectural firm of Carrere & Hastings (Manhattan), builders of New York Public Library, Arlington Memorial Amphitheatre to the Unknown Soldier. Reason: the death of Partner Thomas Hastings (TIME, Nov. 4). Partner John Merven Carrere died...