Word: accidental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The story of the police reporter who took the picture of the victim of an accident instead of helping her [TIME, Oct. 24] was, to this reader, blood-chilling . . .
¶ Newfoundlander involved in a minor traffic accident at a U.S. base was ordered by an MP to report to the gatehouse. When he refused, the MP fired two warning shots; one ricocheted and hit the man in the leg. The Newfoundlander spent 23 days in the base hospital and...
The discovery of penicillin (almost by accident) in 1928 was a conspicuous breakthrough. Britain's Dr. Alexander Fleming noticed that the mold Penicillium notatum secretes a substance that kills certain bacteria growing on culture dishes. Later it was found that the secretion also kills many disease-producing organisms in...
"And Kempthorn's 'accident' came from a deliberate blow on the head which was even put on the air by one of the announcers, he added.
Died. Sir Maurice Alan Cassidy, 69, heart specialist and physician to three British kings (George V, Edward VIII, George VI); of complications following an auto accident last April; in London.