Word: vomits
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Children are much more susceptible than adults. Early symptoms are like those of many other diseases-restlessness or drowsiness, fever, irritability. The infected child may vomit once or twice, may be either constipated or have diarrhea. More significant are a sore, stiff neck and spine, pain in the back, arms and legs...
...Manhattan, Abraham Levitt, jeweler, felt nauseated, tried to make himself vomit by tickling his uvula with a spoon. The spoon caught in his gullet. Bellowing, Jeweler Levitt rushed out for help. A policeman tried to extricate the spoon. Jeweler Levitt hastened to Beekman St. Hospital. While waiting for a surgeon, he signaled for a drink of water, drank, gagged, gasped. Out popped the spoon...
Near Berlin last week newsmen stood behind protecting steel walls, stoppered their ears and watched a small cannon-like device vomit gases with a nerve-shattering roar. Two minutes of the din was all they could endure. The "cannon," mounted on an engine block, was Inventor Paul Heylandt's latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe...