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Word: pneumonia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week highdomed SEC Commissioner Jerome Frank lay in bed suffering with pneumonia. But even as he did so he added a chapter to depression economic philosophy. Before a meeting of the National Association of Securities Commissioners in Kansas City, husky SEC Lawyer Chester Lane read a speech that Commissioner Frank had written, a speech that excited comment in financial circles, drew even an approving nod from the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Frank Proposal | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Died. Homer D. Boughner, 89, football pioneer; of pneumonia; in Denver, Colo. In the first intercollegiate football game ever played in the U.S., Princeton v. Rutgers in 1869, Mr. Boughner was one of the Princeton team of 25. Rutgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Last week gloom enveloped Camp LaGuardia (for homeless men) in Orange County, N. Y. Reason: the 60 pedigreed rabbits, which New York City's Department of Health entrusted to the campers for breeding purposes last fall, had produced only 100 bunnies suitable for the municipal culture of pneumonia serum, thus blighting the department's hopes of shaving its annual $24,000 rabbit bill. Said Chief Rabbit-Keeper William Hodson, commissioner of Public Welfare: "I have been feeding them almost nothing but hormone extracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pneumonia Antigen | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

They are a disgrace." At the same time enthusiasm marked the 40th convention of the Society of American Bacteriologists in San Francisco. For 38-year-old Dr. Walther Frederick Goebel of the Rockefeller Institute Hospital announced that he had produced artificially a successful pneumonia antigen. (An antigen is a substance which stimulates the organism to produce antibodies ; a serum is a blood constituent in which antibodies have already been produced.) The Goebel antigen is a combination of egg white and an acid obtained by complicated treatment of cellulose products (such as sawdust, straw or wood fibres) with water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pneumonia Antigen | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...main narrative is much simpler-the story of six seamen aboard a tramp schooner bound from Norway to Newfoundland, with a couple of months ashore in Iceland, where the captain is laid up with pneumonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sadistic Sailors | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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