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Every year 450,000 people in the U. S. get pneumonia. Every year more than 100,000 of them die. Next year, if they receive prompt and proper medical care, there seems to be no reason for more than 36,000 people to succumb to the suffocating disease that up to now has been the nation's third biggest killer. The official news of this medical triumph came from the Food and Drug Administration, which last week licensed the sale of sulfapyridine...
...head scissors, in 2:45. Leigh is probably the outstanding wrestler in his class in the East. Bruce Richardson found that continuing his undefeated record was too much for him as he was defeated by a decision. He was the last of the original starting Sophomores to succumb to defeat, being beaten by Luther Richards...
...part to an un-neutral policy pursued by the United States, While we refuse to sell arms to the elected government of Spain, we nevertheless impose no restrictions on such sales to Italy and Germany. Thus, unable to supply her men with the most elementary equipment, Barcelona had to succumb . . . to German and Italian arms . . . The interests of peace and sane international relations demand that the arms embargo be lifted...
...wait for the old lady to die and leave them all her money. Softened by years of living by their wits, they not only lack the moral fibre to take advantage of their hostess but even allow her to rob them of their resistance to right-living. They succumb so completely that the Colonel goes to work and both children get respectably engaged...
...look impregnable for the future. Will the Ruppert beer-filled rifles riddle the Windy City Cubbies? Will Manager Joe McCarthy, the only man who has ever managed both a National and American League pennant winner, become the first to win three World Series in a row? Will the Chicagoans succumb meekly, as they did not long ago to the same Yankees, in four games? One-quarter of these questions will be answered on Wrigley Field today...