Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injury to the liver that may lead to death from subsequent attacks of what otherwise would be relatively harmless diseases has been traced to fumes from certain widely used chemicals by Dr. Cecil K. Drinker, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, and his associates...
Demand for an investigation into the causes of the death of F. William Burgess, Freshman law student, whose body was found in the Charles River Sunday moring, awaited the arrival of the parents of the dead boy from Cincinnati...
Identification was considered positive, but as yet no definite proof that death was caused by suicide has been given. Medical officials expressed the belief yesterday that something might be learned from the condition of the lungs, explaining that, if the lungs were not filled with water, there was a possibility that death was due to some cause other than drowning. However they were careful to emphasize the difficulty of determining anything positive from a body which has been under water since November...
...Deal disapproves of this on the ground that the system of subsidiary operating companies, pyramided to a peak in Wall Street, provides an irresistible chance to overcapitalize at the expense of stockholder and consumer. Hence, while Electric Bond & Share"undertook a major court battle against the holding company "death sentence," United presented seven successive plans to SEC, all designed to enable it to continue to exist in the form of an investment trust. Having turned all the plans down, SEC anticipated few friendly overtures. When these suddenly came from Mr. Whitney about the time that Franklin Roosevelt declared a truce...
...affection for the boy. But when he finally had the power to stop the execution, he remembered little ambiguous remarks Milagritos had made, wondered if her cousin was her lover. A terrible creeping apathy left Mr. Witt sitting by, inert, trembling, preoccupied, while the cousin went to his death. Then, to square himself with his conscience, Mr. Witt had to believe that Milagritos had betrayed him. At last this upright, self-respecting gentleman spent his nights prowling like a baffled thief around his own house, rummaging through his wife's papers for evidence of her guilt, while the shells...