Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...term today with one new member and another seat vacant. The coming session is expected to make decisions on the powers of the House Committee on Un-American Affairs. Justice William O. Douglas will be absent today because he suffered at least 13 broken ribs and a punctured lung while horseback-riding in the state of Washington yesterday...
Last June, Gibbon reported that his artificial heart had taken over the heart and lung functions of dogs for as long as 46 minutes. He will not even guess when the apparatus will be ready to try on humans. The work of the heart can be done, and done well, by the pumping system; but he is not yet satisfied with the way it does the work of the lungs (putting fresh oxygen into the blood). The lungs' myriad air cells have an absorption area of about 600 sq. ft. A machine duplicating so large an area would...
...Cooperstown, N.Y., Baseball's Hall of Fame conscientiously wrote to Philadelphia Phillies First Baseman Eddie Waitkus for the .22 slug that an overenthusiastic girl fan fired into his lung in June...
Even the major parties grew shrill in their attacks on each other. Last week, in Frankfurt's Römerberg Square, Socialists and Christian Democrats matched principles and lung power. As pink, plump Dr. Ludwig Erhard, the Christian Democrats' free-enterprising economic boss of Bizonia, started to speak, Socialist hecklers broke into a chorus: "Liar-liar-liar, we are jobless!" Cried Erhard: "I remain confident of the energy and determination of the German people . . . What we need is optimism, not control." This time, cheers drowned out the hecklers...
...Covington, Ky., Mrs. Robert G. Davis, 24, had been in an iron lung for 24 hours when she gave birth to a healthy, 5 lb. 4 oz. girl. For final delivery the lung was opened, and the motor shut off, for only 15 seconds. Mrs. Davis' condition was obstetrically good but she was still gravely ill from polio...