Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edge of the Gulf Stream, 2½ miles off Hollywood Beach, Fla., Indianapolis Housewife Barbara Jacobs, 33, strapped on an Aqua-Lung, swam down to a new skindiving record for women...
...Both the incidence and death rate of cancer of the lung and bronchus more than doubled between...
Died. Ely Culbertson, 64, high priest of contract bridge, author (Contract Bridge Blue Book, The Strange Lives of One Man), founder and president of the peace-minded World Federation Inc.; of a lung congestion; in Brattleboro, Vt. Culbertson introduced new methods of contract bridge, made his name a household word after he parlayed national publicity gained from his six-week tournament with Sydney S. Lenz in 1931 (referee: Lieut. Al Gruenther, now boss of NATO) into one of the large Depression fortunes...
...Gras, he found time to establish the Ochsner Clinic, which he built into a "Mayos' of the South," and a hospital operated by the Ochsner Foundation. The hospital is so modern that it has its own heliport, largely to receive casualties from tidewater oil rigs. Along the way, Lung Surgeon Alton Ochsner has become a leader in the medicosurgical fight against cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer. He makes as many speeches (professional) as a man who says he is not running for the presidency, and has also found time to cement relations between U.S. surgeons...
...Smoking, already tied to lung cancer, picked up another morbid relation when Drs. Francis C. Lowell, William Franklin, Alan L. Michelson and Irving W. Schiller, all of Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, told a Boston meeting of the American Medical Association that they have discovered an association between smoking and obstructive pulmonary emphysema. In a study of 34 victims of emphysema- a swelling and rupture of the lung's tiny air sacs that can prove disabling or even fatal-the doctors discovered that 100% of the patients smoked, and that they smoked an average of twice as many "pack years" (packs...