Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leader Pechanatz gave Mrs. Mitchell a job as dispatch rider on his general staff. From a list of names before him, he crossed hers off. Said he: "We just cross the name off, my girl, because we consider you dead when you become one of us. I expect to die myself this time. How about you?" "I am willing too," said Ruth Mitchell stoutly...
Tuberculosis. One of the barometers of a city's bad health is its tuberculosis rate.Of every 100,000 Washingtonians, 89 died of tuberculosis last year (national rate: 47 per 100,000). Washington's 177,000-Negroes live mostly in condemned alley buildings. Six Negroes die of t.b. every year to one white person...
...when President F. Donald Coster looked in his bathroom mirror and shot himself through the head, it was widely supposed that the $87,000,000 drug firm of McKesson & Robbins would die with him in all the bathrooms of the U. S. But this week, after 26 months in the bankruptcy courts, McKesson was ready to go back to its owners, and it was anything but dead. On the basis of de-Costerized accounting, its 1940 sales and profits were the best in its 108-year history...
...claimed its first operatic victim: Wagner's Die Meistersinger, supposedly dropped because of its heroic apostrophes to Germany and holy German...
...ailment that enabled her to wield an invalid power that she had never known in healthier days. Asa's conscience is her slave. Sometimes he succeeds in sneaking off to spend Sunday with Kate Oliver on her river farm. His hope is that some day Uncle William will die and leave Lavinia a legacy. When that happened, Asa meant to leave and go to Kate. But when at last it did happen, it was already too late. Asa had begun to establish a protectorate over his daughter, Roy. "You will stand by me?" Roy asked. "I will...