Word: lungingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Rear Admiral Ashley Herman Robertson, 62, Vice Admiral commanding the U. S. scouting fleet, Spanish and World War veteran; of lung congestion following pneumonia; in San Diego, Calif...
...applied artificial respiration. While they were alternating squeezing and releasing the victim's ribs, an ambulance arrived with Dr. Irving Plain and an inhalator. The guards ceased their efforts at resuscitation to argue with Dr. Plain that the inhalator's carbon dioxide, which stimulates breathing, can harm lung tissue. He would not, they said, let anyone use an inhalator on one of their drowning patients. A pulmotor pumps oxygen into the lungs too quickly, in their opinion. As the life guards and doctor argued long and loud, police arrived with another inhalator. The police drove the life guards...
Author Hans Carossa, 52, Bavarian, is a specialist in lung diseases. He practices his profession in Seestetten, a village on the Danube. During the War he served as medical officer with the Bavarian infantry on several fronts, was finally wounded in April, 1918 at Nieppe Wood. A Roumanian Diary is his first book to be translated into English...
...heart wrung by reports of starvation and suffering, "Emperor" Hsuan Tung who now modestly calls himself Mr. Henry P'u-yi searched for a famine relief gift among the remnants of the Manchu Treasure which now comprise his small fortune. Rummaging, he found some antique Ch'ien Lung sables, perfectly preserved, fabulously prized in China. Turning his jewel box upside down, generous Henry counted out 800 pearls from the dwindling hoard. By a trusty messenger the Imperial pearls and Imperial sables were despatched "with Mr. Henry P'u-yi's compliments" to the chief Peking agency...
Rescuers found Segrave half floating in his life-preserver. His arms were broken, a thigh and rib were fractured, a lung was punctured. He died that night, happy in the knowledge that the record was his. His mechanic was drowned. His engineer was badly hurt...