Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orleans, Nashville, Denver and Fall River had 16 or more. Southern cities usually have higher death-rates because of the higher mortality among Negroes. Akron was the banner health city of the year, reaching the record low mark of 7.5, and taking the palm from Seattle, which however was still second with 9.6. Fort Worth and Milwaukee also hung up good marks...
...when he was editor of the Detroit Free Press, that he first attracted the attention of Joseph Pulitzer, the Great Pulitzer. The (health of William Henry Merrill, chief editorial writer of The World, was failing. The eyesight of Mr. Pulitzer himself no longer permitted him to serve in the full capacity of editor. Cobb was called East. He became Mr. Merrill's chief assistant. When Mr. Merrill died he became chief editorial writer of The World, and on Joseph Pulitzer's death in 1913, he succeeded to the title of editor...
March 4, 1921: "The great outstanding figure of the war, Mr. Wilson remains the great outstanding figure of the peace. Broken in health and shattered in body, Mr. Wilson is leaving the White House, but his spirit still dominates the scene. It pervades every chancellery in Europe. It hovers over every capital. Because Woodrow Wilson was President of the United States during the most critical period of modern history, international relations have undergone their first far-reaching moral revolution...
Stray X-rays escaping from a laboratory or doctor's office and endangering the health of persons in adjoining rooms will have their teeth pulled by an invention of Maximilian Toch, Manhattan chemist. Metallic lead sheathing has been used in such rooms to keep the rays in, but this is costly and the heavy metal requires special strengthening of building walls. Toch's method is the use of a barium compound in the plaster or paint on the walls of the X-ray room, barium being impervious to the rays...
...Orleans, a State health officer received a letter from Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service, offering to provide a glass cage in which to incarcerate George Beaurepaire, Negro inmate of the National Leprosarium at Carville, La., while he was being tried in Criminal Court for murder...