Word: lungingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seriously ill from long recurrent lung trouble last week at Brasov, Rumanian health resort, where he is interned with other former Polish Cabinet Ministers, was former Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck. Suffering from a heart attack in the same house was former Minister of Commerce Antoni Roman...
...Lung. Six years ago a middle-aged Pittsburgh physician with cancer of the lung made a long, painful journey to St. Louis to beg a crumb of hope from famed Surgeon Evarts Ambrose Graham.* Both doctors thought that death was inevitable, and Dr. Graham decided on a last, desperate measure, never before tried in the history of surgery: complete amputation of the cancerous lung in one stage. An incision was made down the sick man's back, beside and below his shoulder blade. Carefully Dr. Graham slit through tough chest muscles, removed sections of seven ribs, neatly severed...
...years ago he used to spend some of his evenings in the machine-shop in his basement, just tinkering, but lately he has had no time for that and it has been taken over by his 16-year-old son Richard. Last summer Richard built himself a one-lung automobile in the basement shop. Said his father, with the characteristic wrinkled grin that makes his eyes disappear: "A good mechanic's job-and I didn't help him." His other son, Robert, 27, is a Chrysler research engineer. No seeker for a college degree, he went to work...
Since the loss of the submarine S-4 in 1927, Commander Momsen had been devoting his energies to experiment in undersea rescue work; during this time he had developed his famous "Momsen lung," a last-chance device which would have been used in rescuing the crew of the Squalus one at a time, had the rescue chamber failed...
Commander Charles B. Momsen, United States Navy, inventor of the Momsen lung and one of the directors of the successful salvaging of the ill-fated submarine Squalus, will describe the salvaging operations at a lecture sponsored by the Harvard Engineering Society in 110 Pierce Hall on Friday evening at 8 o'clock...