Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also worked in its first test on human beings-ten children, one month to 2½ years old, suffering from whooping cough. All showed definite improvement in the first 48 hours. (Two of the children later died, but neither death was due either to whooping cough or to aerosporin...
Reverse the Coin. But Dr. Oppenheimer would not have the scientists-even if they could-shut down the lid of their fearful Pandora's chest now, for treasures are there as well as imps of death: "Out of [science's] work there will come . . . things which will improve man's health, ease his labor, and divert and edify him. . . . There is no need to belabor this point, nor its obverse-that out of science there will come, as there has in this last war, a host of instruments of destruction...
...Vaughan, seventyish, second wife (morganatic) and widow of Belgium's King Leopold II; in Cambo-les-Bains, France. Young daughter of a Parisian concierge, she became the mistress of 65-year-old Leopold, bore him two sons in nine years, wed him in 1909, four days before his death...
...Weather control. 5. Death rays...
Suppose that, after the death of Caesar, some industrious private investigator assembled all the relevant documents on the murder-intercepted letters from Caesar's better-known enemies, the report (to Cleopatra) of a secret operative of the Egyptian government, a discussion with Caesar's physician, confidential messages from his wife's maid, and, above all, Caesar's private papers. Suppose, further, that these documents were arranged like the evidence in a murder trial to show who was guilty and why. How would the result compare with the accounts given by Shakespeare and Suetonius...