Word: heart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thymus (sweetbread) is a gland located above the heart, at the root of the neck. Together with the pituitary it controls growth through infancy (1 to 6 years) and childhood (6 to 14 years). It normally disappears at puberty...
...other museums attribute their peak popularity to Depression when free entertainment and shelter attracted full houses. This year attendance is generally increasing, apparently due to new interests which museum directors are stirring in their communities. And every new interest stirs a hope for gifts in the management's heart...
...Withers Stakes, feature race of the week at Long Island's Belmont Park; by two lengths, with Charing Cross second. Morning before the race, Flying Cross, owned by Jock Whitney's cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt (''Sonny") Whitney, and also entered in the Withers, fell dead of heart failure while being exercised...
Died. Manuel C. Tellez, 52, onetime (1925-31) Mexican Ambassador to the U. S., later (1934) Minister to Italy, one-time newshawk; of heart disease; in Mexico City...
Died. John Davison Rockefeller, 97; of sclerotic myocarditis (hardening of the heart muscles); at "The Casements," at Ormond Beach...