Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawrason Brown, M. D., lung specialist.Sc...
Invention had promised succor for just such a disaster. In the U. S. Lieut. Charles Bowers Momsen and in England R. H. Davis have each invented a "lung" for submarine escape. The essential parts of both devices are a small tank of compressed oxygen, an inflated bag and a mouthpiece. Connecting mouthpiece and tank is a stout tube. Thus a man escaping from a sunken submarine can breathe the minutes required for him to bob to the surface and rescue. That is, if he can get out of his deep, steel prison. Since the Momsen "lung" was invented there...
While in the Yellow Sea the British rescue forces were frantically hunting for oily bubbles which would show where the Poseidon lay, one man popped to the surface. Then another. The Davis "lung'' had served them well. But the compressed air which had ejected them like torpedoes from the Poseidon's hatches had bruised them mortally. Four more men came through all right...
Things had been going quite well. Up in Hupeh province government troops had just put to flight Communist General Ho Lung. They captured 1,800 of his soldiers, made them kneel in long rows while down each row tramped a government executioner with a great, broad sword. Swish, swish, swish, 1,800 heads fell. General Ho, as he fled, dropped like hot cakes Miss Esther Nordlund, 34 (and Miss Augusta Nelson, 50), missionaries (TIME, May 4). They reached Hankow safely last week, gave the first account of little-known, muchdreaded General...
...diagnostic error by distinguished Professor Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Berlin Specialist in lung surgery, ast ounded the German Surgical Society last week. He tried to make a joke of the matter, which his colleagues helped out. They like...