Word: pleural
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Cyril Walker, 56, wispy, hard-drinking golf professional, who beat out Bobby Jones to win the U.S. Open Championship in 1924; of pleural pneumonia; in a Hackensack, N.J. jail cell, where he had gone for shelter. After winning the Open, English-born Walker gradually drank himself out of big-time competition, at one time worked as a caddy, ended up a dishwasher...
Perhaps it is just sour grapes on my part, but I was rejected for active duty when my National Guard unit was inducted, because I had pleural effusion back...
...World War I and the Spanish Civil War, dead soldiers, without any visible wounds, were found near the sites of heavy explosions. Sometimes bloody fluid trickled from their noses and mouths. Examination of the lungs showed hemorrhages, pleural lesion or collapse. Recently Dr. Zuckerman undertook for the Ministry of Home Security a series of experiments on pressure waves from explosions and the effect on lungs. Using piezoelectric recorders (crystals which convert pressure into electric current), he found that the blast from 125 lb. of high explosive builds up a pressure of 200 lb. per square inch at a distance...