Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's durable Mayor William O'Dwyer, 59, recovering from virus pneumonia and nervous exhaustion, started a vacation in Florida...
Died. Gargantua the Great, twentyish, for twelve years Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's "frightfully fiendish" star gorilla; of double pneumonia, cancer and complications; in his $10,000 air-conditioned cage in Miami...
Dubos took samples from patches of soil and noted which micro-organisms were present in them and how many of each kind. Then he made a brew of pneumonia bacteria and poured it on material from the patches. He repeated the experiment many times, watching for changes in the soil's microscopic population. Some of the organisms thrived on the strange diet, indicating that they might destroy pneumonia bacteria. Dubos made cultures of the hardy fighters and tested them against various disease-causing organisms...
...Yankees were nervous. In the dressing room, Joe DiMaggio paced the floor. Weak and pale from an attack of virus pneumonia which had kept him out of the line-up for 14 days, he muttered: "I wish I could save the energy I'm using now." Then the Big Guy walked out to home plate to take his bow in the celebration of "Joe DiMaggio...
Died. Robert ("Bobby") Walthour Sr., 71, Georgia-born bicyclist who retired 20 years ago after breaking his collarbone for the 29th time, simultaneously held the U.S. and European speed records (in 1903 he pedaled a mile in 1 min. 7 sec.); of pneumonia; in Boston...