Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, when the conference report came out, Republicans demanded roll calls to delay matters as the midnight deadline approached. On the Senate side, a grim procession of Republicans filed into Senator Townsend's office, came out resolved to talk the bill to death...
...Negro Harlem has an annual tuberculosis death rate of 250 per 100,000 (against 69 for the city as a whole); the median rent in its crowded, stinky black-holes is $50 a month; in the city at large, $35. "The first race riot in New York was in 1712. The most recent was in 1935. The last is not yet." But Negroes like their Harlem. ("I'd rather be a lamppost on Lenox Avenue [Harlem's Main Street] than Governor of Georgia...
...liquor without getting drunk, Dr. Ira Albert Manville of the University of Oregon Medical School thinks he can tell him how. Recommended by him last week was a generous portion of apple juice along with the drinks. Dr. Manville administered enough alcohol to one dog to cause stupor and death, the same amount accompanied by apple juice to another dog. The second dog lost a certain amount of muscular coordination, but remained in such good shape that he did not even fall asleep...
...Although it may be depriving its readers of a bit of information which they have been accustomed to find in the press, the Courant is now omitting to mention in its obituary columns the nature of the disease or ailment to which death was attributable. . . . If we can make through the policy here announced a small contribution to the peace of mind of those who foster gloomy predictions we shall be well satisfied...
...entered the World War, more than 64,000 citizens applied, on grounds of conscience, for exemption from combat service. But fewer than 4,000 went further, demanded exemption from noncombatant duty. Most of these were sent to farms and camps; 486 were sentenced to prison, 17 to death. (But no one was executed; at the war's end all sentences were commuted...