Word: lungful
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...check up on a chest tumor. Discounting the "ivy growing in this old Irish ruin," Airman Godfrey gamely commented: "Even if the tumor is malignant, I think I've 'caught it in time-and I know people who've lived a long time with only one lung. I've flown one-engine before...
Died. Don Black, 41, Cleveland pitcher who overcame a career-crippling drinking problem by joining Alcoholics Anonymous, within months (1947 season) threw a no-hitter against the Athletics, next year twisted his neck while batting and suffered a hemorrhage that ended his playing days; of lung cancer; in Akron...
Ever since Dr. Ernest L. Wynder championed the view that heavy cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer, he has been challenged to produce the substances in tobacco smoke (or tar) that do the damage. Last week the American Association for Cancer Research, meeting in Atlantic City, took Wynder's word for it that he has now run the number of tobacco-tar fractions capable of causing cancer up to eight, with the end not yet in sight...
These amounts, Dr. Wynder conceded, are not enough to explain the recent startling increase in lung cancer. So, he argued, either there are other cancer-causing substances still undetected, or there is something that may seem innocent by itself but increases the effect of these cancer-stimulating factors. Laboratory research is now aimed at reducing the tar's content of polycyclic hydrocarbons, either by achieving more complete combustion or by adding a catalyst to the tobacco...
...every trumpeter well knows, to sustain a note of clarity, volume and high pitch through 53 inches of drawn-brass tubing requires the lung power of a bull moose and the finesse of a brindled gnu. What few trumpeters know is that while tootling they approximate the effects of "a formidable Valsalva maneuver," i.e., a hard nose-blow with nostrils and mouth blocked. To find out just how formidable the effects are, London's Dr. E. P. Sharpey-Schafer and California Musician Maurice Faulkner last summer sat down in London. Faulkner huffed his way through several trumpet passages, including...