Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Northwest Corner, as everyone knows, was first occupied by Paul Bunyan, the great logger. He went there to get milk of the Western whale to cure the mysterious illness of Babe, his blue ox. Puget Sound is the grave he dug for Babe when he thought the ox would die, and Washington's Cascade Mountains are the dirt Paul and his loggers heaved up in their digging...
...Front Government started to do something about the penal colony. Last week Premier Edouard Daladier by decree prescribed a slow death for it. No more prisoners are to be sent there, but on the other hand, none of the 5,000 there now will be repatriated. Since the convicts die at the rate of about 500 a year, it will take about ten years to liquidate the penal colony...
...does nothing. This gives injured local nerves opportunity to heal and to help the injured muscles which they serve, to heal also. Dr. Greene finds his anodyne an aid in the treatment of back injuries, sciatica and shaking palsy. In cases of inoperable cancer the patient has opportunity to die in peace...
...movements of a pigeon deprived of thiamin "consist in turning cart wheels and aimless floppings as if freshly decapitated." A human being, similarly starved of this nutritional necessity, may die of sudden heart failure. Less spectacular effects of B2 deficiency are, according to investigators, degeneration of the nervous system, enlargement of the heart, atrophy of muscles, loss of appetite, atony of the colon, stomach ulcers, loss of weight, failure to grow...
...many clutches. Actually the cause of cholera is a microbe shaped like a comma, which enters the body only through the mouth, infests the digestive tract, irritates the bowels to such extent that they extract and eject quarts of fluid from the body. A victim of cholera may die-shriveled and cold from dehydration, uremia and toxemia-within four or five days of exposure to infection...