Word: gasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Professor Yandell Henderson of Yale, by his studies on the biochemistry of respiration and the physiology of circulation, indicated the way, doctors have been giving their failing pneumonia patients extra oxygen to breathe. Enough oxygen then can get through the plugged air spaces at each gasp to sustain the dying patient for two, three minutes. Consequently he need not strain to breathe at the normal rate (16 to 20 times a minute...
When Chicagoans trooped down to the South Side to witness the wrigglings of Fatima ("The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter") on the Midway, to gasp at gorgeous pyrotechnic displays, to parade through the handsome plaster buildings of Messrs. McKim, Mead & White at the Columbian ("World's Fair") Exposition, Reporters Lillie West Brown and George Ade shared a desk in the city room of the Chicago Daily News. Reporter Ade rose to be a special writer, then dramatic editor, then conductor of a column, finally a free-lance humorist (Fables in Slang) and playwright (The Sultan of Sulu...
...Barnes Bridge little Swartwout's barks quickened, his shell moved even. The crowd in Duke's Meadows on Middlesex Isle saw Cambridge take the lead and the crowd on the bridge could see how spasmodic and unsure the Oxford stroke was now, could almost hear the gasp of the Oxford men as the boats went through the middle arch of the bridge. Along the straight half-mile past Mortlake Brewery to Stake Boars, little Swartwout's men were pulling away, an inch, then a foot at a time. Past the high chimney of Mortlake Brewery, Cambridge went...