Word: lungfuls
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...students were rushed to Mount Auburn Hospital, while the other two passed the night at Cambridge City Hospital. Their injuries included minor concussions, serious bruises, facial lacerations, and, in one case, a collapsed lung...
...Kong expires in 1997 has shaken the colony. Hong Kong real estate prices have plunged by as much as two-thirds during the past 18 months. The Carrian group, one of Hong Kong's largest property developers, has collapsed, and the government has assumed control of the Hang Lung Bank, which was faltering partly because of bad real estate loans...
...tight-lipped code of honor was another manifestation of the literary silence, posing as bravery, that lasted until his death of lung cancer in 1961. The act convinced no one, least of all his biographer. Johnson regards her subject without illusion. She knows that inspiration can arrive and vanish without cause and that Hammett's chief tragedy was in holding himself accountable for something beyond his gifts or character. Even so, as she sees it, he showed a streak of heroism, not in his work so much as in "the long blank years that prove the spirit." That kind...
Children of mothers who smoke averaged 4 or 5 percent less lung capacity than normal, said Dr. Ira B. Tager, leader of the research team. This condition has been linked to respiratory problems that occur later in life, the researchers concluded...
Research on the effects of parental cigarette smoking on children began only nine years ago, said Nancy Lichter of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. She added that this was the first study she knew of that investigated diminished lung capacity...