Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from World War I as a frail youth with a bad lung, Lynch slept through a spare-time course at the University of Washington journalism school. The first term, he says, all he learned was to double-space his copy. After six months of it, his news-writing instructor called him aside and said: "Mr. Lynch, you are wasting your time here. Your English is horrible. Your only possibility is as a sports writer...
Died. Sir John Watson Gibson, 61, famed engineer who tourniqueted the Blue Nile with the Sennar Dam, climaxed his career with the breakwaters for the two Mulberry Harbors-the artificial ports that made the Normandy invasion easier; of lung trouble; in London. The Mulberry Harbors were started across the Channel on Dday; by D-plus-100 they had received more than two million troops, 500,000 vehicles, 17 million tons of materiel and supplies...
Cornell University has for years immortalized undergraduate viscera on photographic plates, thereby unmasking many incipient diseases. Mass x-ray programs, recently inaugurated in Watertown and Somerville, have uncovered a numerically small but potentially serious number of cases of tuberculosis and lung tumor among men in their early twenties. Even veterans, recipients of pre-separation examinations, cannot feel completely sanguine about their physical condition, for their x-ray plates are inspected by busy and not always thorough medics, who view the whole procedure as a vexatious but necessary duty...
...Walter Reed Hospital, a young G.I. arrived from Guadalcanal with such a cancer. Dr. Friedman found, to his astonishment, that the soldier's sperm had become fertilized; by a kind of parthenogenesis (virgin birth), without female ova, the cancer had produced tumors resembling embryos, containing bits of placenta, lung, bone...
Soon other cases turned up. Friedman treated them with the hospital's 1,000,000-volt X-ray machine, "Big Bertha," found that he could arrest their cancers if he adjusted the X-ray dose to the contents of the tumor, i.e., one dose for bone, another for lung, etc. All told, he treated 256 G.I.s with cancer of the testes, got a high percentage of improvement...