Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remember that, when the Titanic was sinking, the ship's band played one of these hymns as the only solace possible to offer men about to die...
...firing squad, under Lieutenant Duarte of the First Cavalry, was formed with Torres in front. When asked if he wished to stand with his back to the squad, he answered: 'No, I am ready to die as I am.' The order to fire was then given and the victim fell heavily to the ground. The body was placed in an ambulance and removed to the hospital, preparatory to burial in the municipal territory...
...Down Die Siegesallee in Berlin wander a few disconsolate Junkers. The grim old monuments recall the pomp and grandeur of the good old days, the good old days of blood and iron, gone--forever passed away...
Cancer causes one-tenth of all deaths among grown-ups in the U. S. Yearly from 100,000 to 125,000 people die here from this dis ease. It presents itself in four main ways: 1) epithelial, in which there is no rodlike framework; 2) scirrhous or hard, in which the framework predominates and the tumor is hard and of slow growth; 3) encephaloid or soft, in which the cellular element predominates and the tumor is soft, grows rapidly and often ulcerates; and 4) colloid, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three are also called carcinoma. There...
...Died. William Christopher Patterson, 84, famed as "the world's oldest hangman and first electrocutioner," noted executioner of 54 persons in Auburn prison; at Hornell, N. Y., while peacefully asleep. Leon Czolgosz, famed assassin of President McKinley, was considered by Mr. Patterson the most notable criminal whom he executed. The press, however, accorded tremendous publicity to his execution of one Kemmler, a wife slayer, in the first electric chair actually put into use. He also superintended the electrocution of Mary Farmer, first woman to die in the chair. When questioned, shortly before his death as to whether he thought...