Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyone and everything becomes more & more her guiding passion. By Roman law, crippled Brother Stefano, not Husband Matteo, stands to inherit Maria Luisa's wealth at her death. Thinking that if Stefano has the money it would be as good as hers, Andreina determines that Maria Luisa shall die. She tries to get Pietro to do the job; he will not take her seriously. Stefano deserts her, but still she goes ahead with her scheme. And even at the last, with Maria Luisa murdered and three lives wrecked, Andreina's bitter grudge against the world is still...
Theory. Germs of the diseases which artificial fever benefits die in the high heat. But whether the heat kills them directly or whether the heat stimulates germicidal substances in the body is moot among doctors. In that fog they stand close to medieval predecessors who cured paresis by running threads, horse hairs or bristles (collectively called setons) under the scalp and under the skin of the chest. The setons, medieval theorists argued, caused a flow of "laudable pus" from the chest and head...
...within narrow limits. This is a jovial Irish lawyer named O'Neill, who admits that he has plenty of brains but no character, and is therefore no good. He is altogether of the Sidney Carton pattern, except that at the last minute he is cheated of his opportunity to die heroically. He it is who in the dark hours establishes chains of brotherly love. His usual style is to hold forth in eloquence and mock piety, to the amusement of himself and his listeners off if not on the stage. The part is admirably handled by Ramon Greenleaf, who preserves...
...York City medical schools have for the instruction of their 495 medical freshmen, the pick of the 30,000 unknown who die annually in the metropolis. The surplus dead are placed in plain coffins and hauled by barge to one of the East River islands for burial...
...taken as more than just stirring embers in a fire that lies on the ashes of its deathbed and presages a genuine revival of interest, the cause of debating at Harvard can take heart. For the Debating Council has come perilously near to allowing the sport to die a slow and lingering death, and any measures that can be adopted to stimulate more general interest come as welcome news to all who care for the argumentative...