Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased by movable screens, workers in actinic glass houses would get a maximum of insurance against rickets, pneumonia, tuberculosis. . . . Other exhibits prepared for the Exposition, to which engineers and architects are coming from the world's ends: diving suits, machine guns, ship models, mechanical production inspectors...
Doctors now realize the value of simple, explanatory articles on cancer, heart disease, tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, quackery, and so on (TIME, May 3, 17, June 21, Aug. 30, Sept. 13 Oct. 4, 18, 25, Jan. 17, 31, Feb. 7, 14, etc.). But a few doctors yet lag with their cooperation. These men President Wendell C. Phillips of the American Medical Association scolded last week, when he opened a conference of 50 voluntary and public health organizations at Chicago. Said he: "The medical profession should throw off its mask of reticence and its shrinking attitude toward reasonable publicity concerning health...
...Rockefeller Foundation) and of those contributors to the $1,000,000 endowment of the American Society for the Control of Cancer (TIME, Feb. 14 et ante). Others have given put of the ache of personal tragedies. The wife of Lucius N. Littauer, "Gloversville, N. Y., glove maker, died of pneumonia; he gave $5,000 for pneumonia research (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926). Professor Stephen Leacock's wife died of cancer; he vowed to give over his small wealth and his great talents to finding ways of preventing this disease (TIME...
Died. Charles W. Armour, 66, Vice President of Armour & Co. (meat packers); of pneumonia; in Kansas City...
Died. I-See-O (meaning "Plenty Fires"), 75 or 80, last of the Kiowa Indian scouts, only sergeant in the U. S. regular army holding his position for life* of pneumonia; at Fort Sill, Okla...