Word: heart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert L. Levy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, conducted extensive tests ... on the effects of cigarette smoking on the heart. At the 69th Annual Session of the American Medical Association on June 12, 1947, he said: "It has been our experience, over a period of years, that most patients with a cardiac disorder, including those with disease of the coronary arteries, can smoke moderately without apparent harm. In fact, for many, smoking not only affords pleasure but aids in promoting emotional stability...
...Author of Thank God for My Heart Attack (TIME...
...Leopoldist argument was made by the Catholic ex-Premier Paul van Zeeland: "The Belgian is a man who likes things in their right places. At the bottom of every Belgian heart is the feeling that the royal question has not been put in its right place . . . We believe the King should come back, but, of course, only if most of the people want him back . . . We want to consult the people...
Early evening crowds thronged the neon-lighted sidewalks of the Spui (The Hague's Broadway). Many of them were moviegoers, eagerly getting down from busily clanging streetcars to see Song of My Heart, Fallen Idol, or Till the Clouds Roll By. A few, however, drifted unobtrusively towards a second-floor meeting room of the bleak Café de Kroon. They were searching for peace of soul and were willing to see if two bearded, 32-year-old Moslem missionaries could show them...
...scoffed at all who said that he was getting old, reminded them that his father lived to be 105. But his face had turned yellow with age; he had repeated heart attacks. Greek government officials began to carry black ties in their pockets, to be ready for official mourning the minute the boss died. It was said that during one of his attacks, last year, when doctors tried to move him to the left of the bed on which he lay, The Old Man muttered: "No, please-let me die in the center...