Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Then Dubos found in soil samples a spore-bearing bacillus which actually kills five kinds of pneumococcus; staphylococcus (the pus germ), streptococcus, the diphtheria bacillus. The killing agent is a non-protein substance which Dr. Dubos has isolated in crystalline form. One hundred-thousandth of a gram* of the stuff...
Frederick Douglass. Greatest killer of both Negroes and whites is heart disease. But while tuberculosis has dropped to seventh place among whites, it still holds second among Negroes, killing over 15,000 every year. Like syphilis, the "white plague" is a white man's disease, was unknown in Africa...
Not so auspicious was the prelude to the year-without-a-death. Braniff Airways (Chicago-Brownsville. Tex.), which for seven years had not had a passenger fatality, had just been awarded a certificate of Special Commendation by the National Safety Council when a Braniff plane crashed with a dead engine...
For six or seven years, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, around certain poolrooms, bars, candy stores where idle young hoodlums gathered to swagger, play the slot machines, a sinister kind of talent had been for sale at bargain prices: anything from roughing up and terrorizing a racket victim to...
"In everything was the spirit of children's play-not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life."