Word: tubercular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent the spread of tuberculosis by warning the population with posters: DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE KISSED; DO NOT KISS AN OTHER'S HAND. Officials entrusted with putting the admonition into effect had a job on their hands. Although the incidence of Latvian tuberculosis is high (tubercular death rate in the capital, Riga, is 120 per 100,000), the incidence of Latvian hand-kissing is much higher...
...ironically reunited: the son, a young man inspired by the conviction of his father's innocence and depraved by the lust for revenge; the judge, driven periodically mad by flitting shadows of remorse; and the three guilty men, one the brother of the young man's sweetheart, another a tubercular killer, and the third a bloody, slimy, bullet-pierced specter. The cataclysm that follows is as staggering as so highly explosive material permits...
...then discovered that into the royal laps had been thrust not a death-dealing pistol but a petition signed by the man cut down, Captain Alexander Sumar, retired. "I am tubercular," read the Captain's petition. "My disease caused me to be retired from Your Majesty's service. I beg to be reinstated...
...accepted by the Congregation of Sacred Rites. One was the perfect and instantaneous cure of Sister Marie-Maxima of the religious House of St. Hyacinth, in Quebec; the other, the equally perfect and instantaneous cure of Sister Savoie of the diocese of Chatham (Canada). Both Sisters were suffering from tubercular peritonitis. The cures were effected by the invocation of the martyrs, thus investing their relics with added sanctity. Thousands of pilgrims travel to the Auriesville shrine every summer. Additional remains could not but increase the veneration in which the shrine is held, attracting more visitors...
Improperly nourished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000,000 Defective speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000 Weak or damaged hearts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000 Behavior problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675,000 Mentally retarded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450,000 Tubercular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382,000 Impaired hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342,000 Totally deaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,000 Crippled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300,000 Partially blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000 Wholly blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,000 Delinquent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,000 Dependent...