Word: lungful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unusual feature was a demonstration, by the Western Electric Co., of a method enabling 750 physicians at one time to. listen to the heart beats and lung sounds of a patient. Radio tubes and amplifiers were used and the physicians in the audience, using their own stethoscopes applied to the radio ear phones, heard the sounds exactly as they were being heard by the demonstrator...
...advantage of me.' Urged by cinema men to tell a funny story during the performance, I responded: 'Henry Ford never went to college but he went to Coolidge.' I could not help joining in the general laughter that followed. Said I: 'I used up much lung power while Frazier never cracked a smile but kept on sawing...
...showed that patches of broncho-pneumonia had developed in the right lung. The President's condition was pronounced serious...
...Lung, Wandering Philosopher, is Hero in a Minor...
...Story. Kai Lung, wandering philosopher and teller of tales in the days before China was troubled by the ways of Western civilization, fell into converse-and love-in the course of his peregrinations with a pleasant willow-pattern young lady nicknamed the "Golden Mouse"-and in the very same day acquired the undying enmity of the execrable Ming-Shu, chief henchman of the Mandarin Shan Tien. Kai Lung was brought to the Mandarin for judgment. "He raised his rebellious voice," remarked the prosecutor unpleasantly. "The usual remedy in such cases ... is strangulation." Everything was ready for the necktie-party, when...