Word: lungful
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...diagnostic error by distinguished Professor Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Berlin Specialist in lung surgery, ast ounded the German Surgical Society last week. He tried to make a joke of the matter, which his colleagues helped out. They like...
...Nice apartment one night last week, Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger fired two bullets at her husband. One entered just under his left eye, lodged at the base of his skull. The other bullet plowed through Mr. Nixon-Nirdlinger's left side, tore away much of the lung...
...Wang Lung was the poor son of a poor farmer of Anhwei. When he married a slave girl from the rich house of Hwang he hoped his lot would improve, and it did. Olan was as good a wife as he could have picked: silent, a hard and willing worker, a sturdy producer of children. Fortune smiled on Wang Lung, he bought more land. Then came a year of famine. With himself and his family nearly dead of starvation, Wang Lung decided to go south. In Kiangsu they lived like beggars, but they lived...
Revolution came to Kiangsu and gave Wang Lung a lucky break. In the uproar he stumbled on a good windfall of loot, and back they all went to Anhwei. The farm was in a dreadful state, but money mended matters; soon Wang Lung was richest man in the village. Famines came again but he outrode them. Olan served him well and truly, lived to see herself supplanted by Lotus, a pretty but sterile harlot-mistress. Wang Lung's sons grew up to disappoint him. He was proud of their superior education but grieved that they cared nothing...
...highest possible point of efficiency by applying latest scientific and medical treatment. Among directors of the Foundation is Lewis J. Brown, president of Mr. Kellogg's Kellogg Co. and a leader of the American Management Association. Foundation medical superintendent is Dr. James Stuart Pritchard, 48, Canadian-born lung specialist, long in charge of the chest department of the Battle Creek Sanitarium which Businessman Will Keith Kellogg's famed brother Dr. John Harvey Kellogg operates...