Word: tuberculars
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...have to look far to find the pale, undernourished look of an ex-occupant of the German concentration camp. Two Czech students bore with them the unmistakable back of the tubercular victim. In a country where 40% of the former members of concentration camps suffer from serious lung disease, they have only added their names to the waiting lists of the overcrowded sanitariums...
...spring term, when a 5,000-pound wheat con- servation and a $2,400 cash saving were credited to the program. Contributions have been sent through Boston's Unitarian Service Committee to students at the University of Paris and the University of Vienna, and $300 was allocated to tubercular students at the University of Grenoble last week...
...Academy of History, Dr. Carlos Blanco Soler denounced the whole scandal as a frivolous fraud. Since December, he said, he and two fellow scholars had been examining the Duchess' mummified body. Their verdict was death from natural causes-meningeal encephalitis, aggravated by tuberculosis, as evidenced by a tubercular lesion in the right lung and a spinal curvature. The experts reported no traces of poison...
...there was no money in the house to bury her. When his brother-in-law went crazy, the clutchers came in a plain, black cab and carried him off to the home for loony paupers at Grangegor-man. He himself had been born with weak eyes, and contracted "a tubercular swelling" on his neck. With his "tattered clothes and broken boots," he looked like "a ragamuffin . . . a shuddering sight for Gaelic gods...
More than most ex-G.I.s who had married English girls, former Paratrooper Joe Cananzey, of Taunton, Mass., sweated out his separation from his wife. Pam Cananzey, whom Joe had met on a blind date at Nottingham Castle, and wooed in Sherwood Forest, was tubercular. Just how ill she was Joe did not guess until he received a telegram last week: "Pam sinking fast, calling...