Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died hard. Nine times the pig staggered to its feet and collapsed. The ninth time, three minutes and 25 seconds later, its corkscrew tail straightened out rigid in death. After the gas was blown out and the pig removed, opinions remained divided. Most of the newspapermen spectators professed themselves horrified. Queasy Warden...
...From the study of 60 prehistoric Peruvian skulls which bore evidence of trephining, Dr. Rogers was able to tell a good deal about the nature and success of the primitive operation. The methods used in removing the bone included drilling, sawing, cutting and scraping. If the patient did not die immediately, new bone tended to grow back although in no case was the hole completely closed. From this evidence Dr. Rogers concluded: that 78% of the victims survived the operation, that 63% lived for several years afterward, as shown by advanced healing. Of the 22% who failed to survive, probably...
...distinguish fact from fiction in his work. "I can never remember a good story," he complains, "till I hear it again and then I forget it before I have had a chance to tell it to somebody else." But he realized that it would "exasperate" him if he should die before he had written down his thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested him. Since these turn out to be mainly literature and the theatre, most of The Slimming Up is given over to studied critical comment: opinions on the prose of Dryden and Swift, on the literary value...
...hard for everybody to take: At Gauley Bridge, W. Va., a hill being tunneled on a hydro-electric project turned out to be 90-even 99% pure silica, of great metallurgical value. Consequences: the silica, for greater speed, profit, was mined dry; the tunnel workers developed silicosis, died like ants in a flour bin; lawyers representing the workers charged their clients some 50% of the piddling compensations collected; a committee took the matter up before Congress. Net result: Bill blocked, investigation blocked; the workers left their flour bin, some continuing to die like ants, some beginning to think like Poet...
...DIE BEFORE I WAKE-Sherwood King - Simon & Schuster ($2). The chauffeur of a rich Long Island lawyer, involved in a murder conspiracy, finds himself on trial for the murder of a man he did not kill. Plot: clever; style: swift, spare...