Word: lungs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record seems to show that Churchill is susceptible to lung ailments. There is a limit to the capacity of an aging, though apparently tireless, body to fight them...
...radiocrooner, said to be a libelous few to consist entirely of 98 pounds of tubercular lung, was rejected for a complaint many of his listeners spotted back in the summer: a punctured ear drum. Thus, as it must come to all men, lost hope came to Frank, who had fondly confided in a draft board teacher that he wanted to be a marine...
...cautious: Diasone is "no cure-all," should not be used outside of sanatoriums, is "not the final answer" to tuberculosis. He is also enthusiastic: Diasone may prove to be "a step ahead, probably ranking with the advent of the sanatorium [rest treatment] and collapse therapy [compressing a sick lung to make it rest...
...autojector, a relatively simple machine, has a vessel (the "lung") in which blood is supplied with oxygen, a pump that circulates the oxygenated blood through the arteries, another pump that takes blood from the veins back to the "lung" for more oxygen. Two other dogs on whom the experiment was performed in 1939 are still alive and healthy. The autojector can also keep a dog's heart beating outside its body, has kept a decapitated dog's head alive for hours-the head cocked its ears at a noise and licked its chops when citric acid was smeared...
Died. Benjamin Anzelevitz, 52, "Ben Bernie, the O-O-Old Maestro," genial, plush-voiced veteran of stage, radio, screen; of a lung infection with heart complications ; in Beverly Hills. An East Side New York blacksmith's son, at 15 he gave a violin recital in Carnegie Hall, took up engineering after hearing Mischa Elman's debut.* In a Brauhaus he played his way through college, finally landed in vaudeville as "Ben, The Eccentric Violinist." In the early '20s he formed one of the country's leading dance bands (for a while his pianist was Oscar Levant...