Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While medical researchers go on piling up mournful numbers which show lung cancer increasing, mainly among heavy smokers of cigarettes-and then argue about what the figures really mean-a London doctor made a practical suggestion last week. Wrote Editor Harvey Graham of Family Doctor, a publication of the British Medical Association...
...This is surely an urgent task which calls for the pooling of all the enormous funds and resources of the great tobacco firms. Then we could all go on enjoying the very real pleasure of smoking without the risk of increasing our liability to cancer of the lung...
...Cowardice. When the math lesson ended, Giuseppe put his hand on the bulge in his pocket and left the classroom. Out in the corridor, Professor Modugno leaned against the door to light a cigarette. Giuseppe calmly took aim and tired three shots which hit his teacher in the right lung, the skull and the groin After giving himself up, he said he had planned to kill himself too, but decided it would be cowardly...
Rapture of the Depths. Cousteau perfected his seagoing lung in 1945. The key to its operation is an automatic compensating valve that adjusts the air supply to the diver's demand and the water pressure. The outfit weighs about 45 lbs. above water; submerged, the man and the machine when properly ballasted weigh hardly a pound...
...Fork-Lift. The Kidders helped to pay for a two-room addition to the Johnson house. Barbara Johnson Kidder had learned at the Mary MacArthur Center how to care for her husband. Last fall, everything was set. The National Foundation shipped out a rocking bed, a wheelchair, an iron lung, a portable respirator and oddments of other equipment. It arranged with the Military Air Transport Service to fly Kidder west. He made the trip in an iron lung (by a roundabout scenic route), with MATS supplying a forklift to heft him in & out of the plane's extra-wide...