Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News of the "sudden death" of Geography at Harvard has just reached the Caribbean...
...first six years after acquiring the Raeburn, Huntington spent $6,000,000. By his death in 1927, he had assembled the finest collection of 18th Century British portraits in the U.S. (among them: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy). And his purchases of 100,000 rare books and 1,000,000 precious manuscripts made him, in Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach's judgment, "without doubt the greatest collector of books the world has ever known." In the judgment of Englishmen who hated to see their treasures taken off, he was one of history's colossal despoilers...
...Atomic Energy Commission continued experiments with rutin, a complex chemical compound obtained from green buckwheat. In experiments with dogs at the University of Rochester, it reduced the death rate from radiation from 64% to 12% by checking internal bleeding, one of the effects of radiation...
...half a century, doctors have known that infected mosquitoes spread malaria. The unsolved mystery has been: Where does the parasite that causes malaria hide out during the ten-day interval between the mosquito's bite and the appearance of the fever? An answer might cut down the world death rate from malaria, still nearly 2,000,000 victims a year...
...Eastman spent her last, vigorous year learning to swim, undergoing a Freudian analysis and deciding to leave her church. Her advice to her son, to "live out of yourself persistently," helped him decide at an early age "to live a life in which something should happen besides birth, death, disease and marriage...