Word: die
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the Senate's resolution for a survey of the Boulder Dam project before Congress convenes again next December. The resolution went to the President. C. Passed a resolution to empower a committee of five House members to investigate campaign funds. C Adjourned sine die...
Diet, dress and demeanor of two desperately bold females in a moment become of head-line importance. Boom, boom go the Hearst syncopators. First class murders, Grade A scandals forth-with fade to the inside pages. The moans of the late Mr. Reading die away entirely...
Should Lord Burghley's father, the 5th Marquess of Exeter, die, the young Justice of the Peace would take his seat in the House of Lords, inherit estates of 27,000 acres, and become both Hereditary Grand Almoner to His Majesty & Custos Rotulorum of the Soke of Peterborough...
...Only the tuberculous are immune from tuberculosis," is a theory long held by physicians. About 90% of the population are mildly infected early in life, set up a resistance, die of automobile accidents, bad oysters, or other causes; show tuberculous lesions on autopsy. Dr. Leon Charles Albert Calmette, assistant director of the Pasteur Institute, and Dr. G. Guerin, decided to reinforce this naturally acquired immunity. They reasoned that if each newborn child were inoculated with tubercle bacilli too weak to produce tuberculosis but strong enough to produce immunity, mortality would be immeasurably cut down. For many years they worked...
...removed only by cremating the bone and then boiling the ash in hydrochloric acid." Keen observers suggested that the bodies of all the unconscious martyrs be exhumed, given to hospitals and laboratories for study, that this great tragedy might add its contribution to scientific knowledge. Newspapers took these five dying women to their ample bosoms. Heartbreaking were the tales of their torture. Publicity hastened the case to trial through the lagging courts. Some found doctors who thought the women might not die. No one found a doctor who thought they might be completely cured. Said Katherine Schaub: "Do you think...