Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defiance of an Absolute Autocrat and a Hypnotist-Monk may seem more witty than significant; but at the time it took titanic courage. No wonder the last, scattered, phantom remnants of the Imperial Army have remained fanatically loyal to Nicholas. Last week, in Nice, the Grand Duke, stricken with pneumonia, sank low, and lower. Oxygen was finally administered and some recovery noted; but tearful, fatalistic members of Nicholas' entourage seemed to sense and fear that the old warrior was joining his last battle with Death...
Died. Ford F. Harvey, 62, President of Fred Harvey, Inc. (operators of the Santa Fe dining cars, many a hotel and lunchroom in the Southwest); of pneumonia following an attack of influenza; in Kansas City, Mo. He, a son of founder Fred Harvey, is survived by a son Fred, polo player and director in Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (TIME...
Most people thought until quite recently that pneumonia was a disease in which one grew rapidly worse until THE CRISIS, whereupon one either died or definitely recovered, unless there was a RELAPSE. These old-fashioned ideas have been strikingly challenged by the King of England's steady resistance to pneumonia over a period exceeding three weeks. Science has now so advanced the medical profession that it has been possible to increase and fortify the white germ-destroying corpuscles in the blood royal. The skilled specialist is prepared today to wage a long-drawn war of attrition with the enemy...
...Cumming made a special point of telling Congress about the fundamental research the Public Health Service is making in various diseases-cancer, tuberculosis, goiter, leprosy, trachoma, undulant fever, typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pneumonia, venereal diseases...
Died. James A. Patten, 76, wheat king; of pneumonia; in Evanston...