Word: decays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five women employes of the U. S. Radium Corp. who sued the company (TIME, June 4) and obtained annuities because of their luminous paint poisonings had absorbed mesothorium salts. The mesothorium made their bones decay. Dr. von Sochocky insisted that they would eventually recover, because the mineral would disintegrate within a few years. It is still present in the five...
...height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout the whole region the air was noxious with fumes of decay. Immediate cremation of the dead was ordered. Quarantine of the entire district was imminent. It was a nauseous vale of murk and putrescence...
...Decay. Nineteen out of 20 school children in North America, England, Germany and Switzerland, have decayed teeth, an estimate indicates. In some places every child is suffering...
...Austria Erit in Orbe Ultima)--the Emperor's favorite motto. His long flowing hair and delicate, refined lines of his aristocratic face heighten the ornate, romantic aspect of the whole composition. When we remember that it was during the weak reign of Frederick III that the decay of the medaeval imperial power approached its climax, the tragic element in all this phantastic splendor becomes apparent...
...Ninth Act. Son and flapper disappear to start life together. Darrell is finally sent away forever. Grey-haired Nina, grey-haired Marsden subside into the painless decay of dreams through which so many live when useful life is done...