Word: dying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year program of digging 1,000 miles of brick-lined tunnels at a depth of 60 feet in which the entire metropolitan population of 8,000,000 could be sheltered. Estimated cost: $2,000,000,000. The professor, while noting that many Britons have told him they would rather die than live thus under conditions which would make them part-time moles, resolutely insisted that Spain has proved the fallacy of attempting to "evacuate and diffuse" the populations of great cities to "safer regions...
Harvey Scott came across the plains in his father's covered wagon from Illinois when he was 14, saw his mother die of plains cholera on the way, helped to bury her beside the trail. He carried a musket in the local Indian "war" in 1855, attended Pacific University and became Portland's first librarian. A short article he wrote about Lincoln's assassination interested Pittock, who hired him in 1865. But five years later they disagreed over politics, and Scott went to the rival Bulletin, later serving as Collector of Customs. In 1877, he returned...
...underlying essence of the whole production. Evidently he did not think his audience would enjoy drawing their own parallel between the pleasantly autocratic regime of Peter Stuyvesant and the government of today; before the comedy has run its course, the simile becomes more and more obvious to die in somewhat labored political satire...
...second stage, known to physicians as coccidioidal granuloma. Any time after an attack of "valley fever," about one patient in 500 develops symptoms of tuberculosis: enlargement of lymph nodes, lesions of the bones. Large ulcers develop all over the body and after extended suffering, 50% of the patients die. Medicine can offer them no help, for doctors know little of the course of the disease...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 3:30 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts at the first International Music Festival at Villa Triebschen, Lake Lucerne, in Maria Luigi Cherubini's Anacreon Overture, Johannes Brahms's Third Symphony, Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger Prelude...