Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hospitals, janitors and washerwomen were pressed into service to help administer oxygen. One young interne started to give oxygen to a woman and discovered she was his wife. She died while he worked over her. Through the next day, persons who had escaped and many rescuers who had gone home, thinking themselves safe suddenly collapsed. They were taken to hospitals. Many of them died. Ben Jones, professional football player, only slightly gassed in the Clinic, drove home, 150 miles to Grove City, Pa., became ill 24 hours later and died...
...Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by four physicians who pledged them selves to give one-fourth of their incomes to its support. Most noted of the founders is Dr. George W. Crile, inventor of "nerve-block" anesthesia and improvements in blood transfusion technique, an expert in thyroid gland and respiratory system operations. At the time of the explosion he was performing an operation in the Clinic hospital in a nearby building. He was not told of the accident until the operation was completed. Still in his white gown and operating cap he rushed to the scene...
...They're all gassed. It's film gas," he cried on seeing the victims. "Clear the way. Give them more air. Have we oxygen enough? Firemen, more firemen!" Dr. John Phillips, another of the founders of the Clinic left the wrecked building after working long among the victims. He started to walk home, collapsed...
...should cover 100 square miles to give elbow room to its two million inhabitants...
...Manhattan last week, Dr. Hannah M. Stone and her associates who taught a woman how to control conception (TIME. April 39), were discharged in magistrate's (police) court. The magistrates decided that New York State laws permit a doctor to give birth control instruction when the doctor acts in good faith. Instruction may be to unmarried as well as married women, so far as the New York law indicates. Unsatisfied with freedom alone, the Stone group insisted upon knowing who instigated their arrest. They suspected Roman Catholics and said so. Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen avoided a direct answer...