Word: lungingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been motoring near the city. Their car became entangled in a fallen high-power transmission line. Mrs. Overby was electrocuted. Rescuers rushed Marie to Little Rock where hospital attendants discovered a nine-inch hole burned through her left chest wall. Flesh, ribs and pleura were gone. The left lung had collapsed. But her heart was beating strongly. She said she felt no pain. There was no possible hope of saving her. So the doctors, mindful of the professional value of an exposed heart action, dragged in a moving picture camera, photographed the puzzled little girl's viscera...
...year, was what President Hoover's automobile got last week as it carried him from his Rapidan camp back to the White House. At the camp remained Herbert Hoover Jr. According to Dr. Joel T. Boone, Herbert Hoover Jr. has tuberculosis in its initial stage. The lung lesion is small, full recovery is anticipated. (¶To be U. S. Minister to Liberia President Hoover last week, as custom dictated, appointed a Negro, Charles E. Mitchell, business manager of the West Virginia State College for Negroes...
...ground shots. The fourth set was the longest ever played in the final of a U. S. singles title match. Doeg won 16-14, bringing California her first singles championship since 1919 when small William Johnston, who three months ago entered a sanitarium to cure a lung ailment, beat William Tatem Tilden...
...submarine S-4 went to the bottom, drowned 40 men (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927). To avert such catastrophes, Lieut. Charles B. Momsen developed a special "lung" life-preserver for submariners (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week at the mouth of the River Thames off New London, Conn., Lieut. Momsen took the salvaged S-4 to the bottom again with a newsreel outfit aboard-director, camera man, sound man-to publicize the success of his device by filming ten seamen escaping to the surface...
Each time a "lung"-equipped sailor left the escape compartment, water entered. Apparatus designed to expel such water temporarily failed. When the Lieutenant and newsreel men alone were left, the water was up to their waists. Suddenly the ship lurched, spread the water over storage batteries connected to the soundrecorder, generating deadly chlorine gas. The newsreel men choked, grew terrified...