Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's great team, which also played hard, rough football. The last time Notre Dame played Southern California, in 1942, the Irish hit so hard that there were U.S.C. mumblings about breaking off athletic relations. Notre Dame's accusers appear to have forgotten that those who die for dear old Rutgers often try to sell their lives as dearly as possible...
When Winston Churchill's voice, alone, against the night of Nazified Europe, proclaimed the determination of free men to remain free or die, his listeners were stirred chiefly by the thunder-roll of his defiance. Few sensed how subtly they were also stirred by the overtones of Europe's high cultural tradition reverberating through those speeches. For almost alone among the world's statesmen, Churchill is a "good European" in the Nietzschean sense-by birth a patriot of Britain, by the mind a sharer in the only unity Europe has achieved-unity of culture. Last week, once...
Stricken Building, Stricken Man. Believing that he was about to die, Elwes received the last sacraments. Instead, he slowly recovered. Over & over, during his recovery, the ruined man dreamed of the ruined abbey...
...insulin days, diabetics had two alternatives: eat well and die tomorrow, or live on a starvation diet and die by inches. Then one day in 1920 Frederick Banting, a young research M.D. at the University of Toronto, wrote in his notebook: "Tie off pancreatic duct of dogs. Wait six to eight weeks. . . . Remove residue and extract." Months later, Banting and Charles Best, a medical student assisting him, announced the isolation of insulin, the sugar-controlling hormone of the pancreas that gives diabetics-people whose bodies cannot use up their sugar intake-a new lease on life...
...heard in a big-league ballpark since Connie Mack picked gimpy-armed Howard Ehmke to pitch (and win) the first game of the 1929 World Series. The announcer said that Ralph Branca, winner of just one game all season, would be the Dodger pitcher in the final do-or-die series with the St. Louis Cardinals...