Word: duringer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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≫ Richard Kettlewell, one of the first men Henry Ford hired when he was preparing to enter commercial automobile production in 1902, later formed a tool, die and pattern business which earned him as much as $500,000 a year before it crashed during Depression I. Now he is a...
≫ Heart disease and diabetes are also more common in the North than in the South. Reason: Northerners must work hard to generate body heat during long cold winters, often overstrain their energy centres. Diabetes, for example, is caused by break-down of the pancreas, an abdominal gland which secretes...
≫ "Mental instability seems to be influenced by the instability of the weather. . . . With the pressure falling and the temperature rising we are afflicted with a feeling of futility." Statistics of cities lying in stormy areas, such as Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, show that most suicides occur during periods of...
During the last three months of her pregnancy, pious, 24-year-old Mrs. Esperanza Sacramenta Rafael of Manila lay in bed gazing at a chromo of Christ pointing to his exposed, bleeding heart. Last fortnight, in a small hospital in the Tondo slum district, Mrs. Rafael gave birth to a...
There she squirmed, squinted at her nurses, swallowed milk through an eyedropper. Her heart beat regularly, and when she cried it bounced up & down on her chest like a tiny red rubber ball. Dr. Jesus Celius of the University of Santo Tomas refused to consider an operation to place her...