Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inspector Marcs is expected to die," cabled a Prague correspondent. "No such case has ever been on record before in Czechoslovakia...
Storm Over Asia (Amkino). A Mongol hunter, mulcted out of a silver fox skin by a Russian fur tycoon, runs amok and flees for his life. In the mountains he encounters kinsmen embattled against the White army and joins them. He is captured, shot, left to die, then nursed back to life when an amulet which accident brought him convinces the White general that he is progeny of great Genghis Khan. The wily White general sets him up as a puppet ruler to insure peace amongst the surly Mongols, but the hunter, confused and bewildered at first, suddenly discerns...
...die, too, is cast. True, both the Democrats and the Republicans meeting in solemn conclave in various states have rigidly avoided a definite stand in their party planks with a persistence that is nothing more nor less than praiseworthy. The repeal of Prohibition will be successful only at the polls. The parties exist for another purpose, difficult though it may be to ascertain that purpose. Twenty-nine new supporters have found their way into the sacred halls of justice down Washington way. According to the prognostications of local experts the wet candidate in Massachusetts should attain a comfortable majority...
...Serge Voronoff, gonad replacer, after a world tour last week returned to his 200 apes at Nice, France, prepared to proceed to his 3,000 sheep in Algeria. Of U. S. businessmen he remarked: "They die at the age of 50. They do not die in the sense that life is extinct. But they are exhausted, worn out, and as good as dead. Their lives are finished. It is due to the pace, the tempo of life in America, the price the American must pay for being ultra-modern...
...repetition of this process often sustains the patient until his lungs regain their normal power. Last week Irving S. Johnston, 25, victim of infantile paralysis, was in the Children's Hospital solitary Drinker Respirator. Appeared Miss May Jean McCullough, 30, similarly paralyzed by infantile paralysis, also bound to die without the respirator's aid. Whom to save, the woman or the man? Dr. Edward Byer Shaw, in charge of the machine was appalled. He called a conference of other staff men. Social custom said: save the woman. Common sense said: Save the man- married, father...