Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were like two glass beads." Her temperature could not be taken at once, because regular clinical thermometers do not go low enough. After an hour and a half, a laboratory thermometer was found and used rectally. Her temperature then was 64.4° F.-far below the point generally considered fatal...
...Gilbert Forbes, research fellow in Legal Medicine, is working as an observer with police investigating the fatal stabbing Friday night of 21-year-old Ethel Ellard, pretty Arlington brunette...
...settlement with the striking railroad workers which gives the men more favorable terms than their leaders accepted on December 21 would be fatal to future industrial peace," Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, declared last night...
Blood, for the most part, is a mixture of white cells, red cells and fluid serum. Leukemia, an invariably fatal form of cancer, is a disease in which the patient's blood becomes overloaded with certain types of white cells. For 100 years or more, doctors have accepted the theory that leukemia is caused by an unknown factor which goads the body into riotous overproduction of white cells. Last week, researchers at the University of California offered a new explanation...
...doctors also disagreed about using pregnenolone against other ailments. Some reported dramatic results with acute lupus, a usually fatal disease of unknown cause. Philadelphia's Dr. Richard Smith said that pregnenolone helped many patients suffering from fibrositis (stiff muscles) or bursitis...