Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Salt Lake City Tribune, under an eight-column headline. 7 L. D. S. MEMBERS DIE IN CRASH, front-paged the finding of the crushed and disfigured bodies of seven Latter Day Saints at the bottom of a 70-foot embankment over which their car had skidded...
...Weibel hoped that the baby would live, for newborn infants have tremendous vigor. This baby died two hours after delivery. Gossip soon ran through Vienna to the effect that it died because Dr. Weibel had paused for two minutes during the breakdown of the cinema camera. Bureaucrats in the Austrian Ministry of Education heard the talk. The State Secretary, Dr. Pernter, called Dr. Weibei to account. He explained that in eclampsia the child poisons the mother's blood and the mother's blood in turn poisons the child. In this case, said he, "autopsy next day showed conclusively...
Witchcraft. The author starts on the premise that all savages are metaphysicians. At the root of their outlook is the fact that they have almost no knowledge of natural laws and almost no conception of cause & effect. They do not know why people get sick and die, why crops fail, why there are droughts or rains, why arrows miss their mark or why hunters are mangled by beasts. Therefore they ascribe every mishap to the action of sorcerers, or of enemies practicing everyday magic, or of invisible influences about whose nature they speculate little but which they feel around them...
...senior medical students from the University of Toronto poison them with nicotine. The nicotine dissolved out of a single cigaret soaked in water is enough to make a grown man deathly sick. The solution of three cigarets will throw an adult into such convulsions that he will probably die within 15 minutes. Eight of Dr. McCormick's hares died of nicotine poisoning in due course...
...killed an Indian and five Mexicans, afterwards wrote of one of the killings: "I was going to shoot him again when he begged and held up his hands. I could not shoot a man, even a treacherous Mexican, begging and down. Besides, I knew he would die anyway...