Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dean, however, was not in Rome last week. He was William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston. Twice Cardinal O'Connell has missed a papal election by not getting to Rome soon enough. The second time, in 1922, he missed it by no more than an hour, expostulated to such effect that one of Pius XI's first acts was to extend the minimum period between the Pope's death and the opening of the conclave to 15 days. Last week it looked as if Cardinal O'Connell, 79 and ailing, wintering in Nassau...
...Warfield Monroe Firor of Johns Hopkins has long worried about this paradox. About 18 months ago he got the hunch that the tetanus toxin which causes the first stage of the disease must be different from the poison which causes the second fatal stage. To test his hunch he injected both small and large amounts of tetanus toxin directly into the spinal cords of more than 60 dogs. The injections were always followed by muscular paroxysms and death, even though 100 times the neutralizing dose of antitoxin was in the bloodstream and even though some doses of the poison were...
...poison and check the disease. But once toxin enters the cord, it somehow becomes transformed into a new poison. "The new substance is not attacked by the present antitoxin," said Dr. Firor. In answer to questions of enthusiastic colleagues, he said that he will shortly try to prepare a second antitoxin which will cure the final stages of tetanus...
Best dog in the show, for the second year in succession: Exquisite Model of Ware, a four-year-old black, white and tan cocker spaniel bitch. Most popular exhibit of merchandise : a gasproof kennel brought out in ''Crisis Week," in which any movement of the dog operates a bel lows under the floor, forces fresh air through respirators...
...bobbing out the rhythm with his head, cuing in an occasional oboe or bassoon with one lace-cuffed hand. Before him peered and labored a score of white-wigged, brocaded musicians. The first oboe closed the music on his stand, blew out his candle, tiptoed from the stage. The second horn followed. One by one, other musicians got up and went out. Soon there were only two violinists left. Together they played the symphony's last note, then rose, doused their candles and departed. Silently the powder-haired Kapellmeister turned, bowed, blew out his candle, plunged the room into...