Word: downed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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The U.S. death rate set an alltime low in 1948, the National Office of Vital Statistics reported last week. There were 1,444,337 deaths-i.e., 9.9 per 1,000 population, compared with 10.1 in 1947 and 10.0 (the previous low) in 1946. Markedly lower were deaths in childbirth...
PAS, the doctors report, has its most Striking effect in reducing fever, spitting, and the poisoning of the body by tubercle bacilli. It also gives the patient a sense of wellbeing. A gain in weight often results from the treatment: one tuberculosis patient, who had been in & out of hospitals...
Two University of Illinois doctors reported last week that they had developed an instrument which, they hoped, would help to detect heart disease in its earliest stages. If their hope is fulfilled, countless cases of heart trouble may now be detected when they begin-in the arteries-and treated in...
The flicked photometer, developed from a standard device long used by eye doctors, is built around a six-volt bulb set in a revolving cylinder. In one side of the cylinder a window is cut to show a flashing light like a miniature lighthouse. The patient looks at the light...
His teammates put him down as lazy and self-centered. Instead of pounding his glove in disgust after booting one, Wakefield would laugh and admit that he sure looked like a clown on that one. When Manager Steve O'Neill once tried to shock him out of his complacency...