Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record is reported to have been approximately ten minutes, at the University of California, in 1916. Were Breather Gaylor to attempt living in an atmosphere surcharged with pure oxygen he would soon become drowsy, lose appetite, weight, and finding real difficulty in breathing, he would turn bluish and eventually die. This has been known since Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, whom French Revolutionists guillotined* in 1794, named the gas. But the reason has been learned only recently-by C. A. Binger, J. M. Faulkner and R. L. Moore. In the Journal of Experimental Medicine they tell how the thin membrane...
...evolution, cosmetics, and clean books, than that of officers of the W. C. T. U. and allied organizations, who may be suspected of looking to Prohibition for their bread and butter. It is really of tremendous significance that a man who would be characterized by most of the die-hards from the rural districts as a bolshevik and so hardly more to be respected than a common theif should ally himself on their side...
...note last week. "Our airplanes had a wonderfull success over your home and the home of your barbars [barbarous?] Judge and Chief Justice. Nobody has not away from us and nobody cannot. "This is the oath of thousands and uiousands that will fight to death. The French spirit never die-as to tell you again, if you, your judge and Chief Justice will execute Sacco-Vanzetti, we going to destroy all of your fellows...
...what sky! what country! We are in a dream of happiness." Chopin wrote: "The three most celebrated doctors of the island came together for a consultation. One sniffed . . . another tapped . . . the third listened while I expectorated. They treated me like an animal, and the first said I would die, the second said I was about to die, the third said I was already dead. But I go on living as I have always lived...
...Bantock Hark All Ye Lovely Saints Wellkes Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan A Midsummer Night's Dream, suite Mendelssohn "Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi The Harvard Glee Club Glorious Apollo Webbe Two English Folk Songs Ar. by Williams and Holst The Hundred Pipers Scotch Folk Song Finale, from "Die Meistersinger" Wagner Bacchanale from "Tannahaeuser" Wagner Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner Introduction to Act III, "Lohengrin" Wagner