Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, on the Harvard Astronomical Laboratory in Bloemfontein, South Africa, is reprinted from the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
...three crosses peculiar to the three saints were ingeniously superimposed, forming the famed British "Union Jack." Last week this same tried and tested formula of superimposition was carried to its ultimate conclusion with the unfurling of a new flag for that British Dominion called the Union of South Africa...
...granite cutters of Aberdeen, the miners of South Africa and Great Britain have surrendered their quota to death by silicosis. These places have their mines and quarries, New York has its blasted tunnels. The growth of fibres around the cell "clumps" is in the nature of a healing process. If the irritation were stopped at this stage the lungs would heal. It is the increasing accumulation of silica particles and the continued growth of fibres that finally cause death. Perhaps the present agitation will move the New York State Legislature to pass the compensation bill it has neglected for four...
Died. Dr. William Alexander Young, Director of Medical Research at Accra, Africa, former assistant to the late Dr. Hideyo Noguchi; of yellow fever. Searching for a yellow fever vaccine, Professor Adrian Stokes of London, Dr. Noguchi and Dr. Young have been successive victims of the disease within the last year...
...years they worked to weaken the little bugs and yet keep them alive. Of these they made a vaccine and inoculated cattle with great success (TIME, July 7, 1924). They made a vaccine for humans; sent it to the Pasteur Institute at Kindia on the coast of French West Africa. Here were man's nearest biological relatives in their natural environment...