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Word: pneumonia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death of Nick | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...period I did not leave the single room in which we were kept, together with robbers, bootleggers and the scum of the country. I did not have a single hour's exercise all the time, nor a single change of underclothing for over five months. Although I had pneumonia and Stanley West, my companion, was even worse off, we were given only bread and a piece of butter the size of a quarter, and a can of green tea holding about a cupful each day. For that the prison commissioners get $1.50 a day per head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vermont Atrocities? | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Died. Sam Houston, six-weeks-old Texas burro, presented to Mrs. Alfred E. Smith in Houston the night of her husband's nomination for presidency; of pneumonia brought on by cold northern winds; in Albany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Died. Mrs. Max Mason, wife of the onetime (1925-28) president of the University of Chicago, who resigned in May to join the board of the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, May 21); of bronchial pneumonia; in Madison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...contagion at every milking time. Most of the epidemics have occurred during the winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout the community, accompanied by chilliness, headache, muscular soreness, nausea, vomiting. The glands of the throat swell up; complications as peritonitis, pneumonia, arthritis are not rare. The abrupt violence of the illness gives little scope for serum, and so far little success has been had with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Epidemics | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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