Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erroneously reported last fortnight that Lady Sophie Heath, 30, had arrived in London by train (TIME, May 21). Actually, she did not reach London until last week-and she came alone in her own airplane, completing her solo flight from Cape Town, South Africa, after she had been long delayed by British officials at Cairo, Egypt...
Died. Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, 51, native of Japan, discoverer of the germ and the curative serum for South American yellow fever; of African yellow fever, in Accra, West Africa. He had been working in conjunction with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to find the African yellow fever germ. On the fifth day of his illness he had a monkey injected with a few drops of his own infected blood. The monkey died. Fifty other monkeys were infected and died (TIME, May 21). Thus Dr. Noguchi had discovered the African germ, and was planning to work for a serum when...
...infected with the organism; that the mosquito would carry the infection from one animal to another ; that a horse serum could be prepared that would cure the disease if administered shortly after the infection. These facts known, the disease was conquered. The same process must be applied to West Africa. For over two years a Com mission of the Rockefeller Foundation has been at work on the problem in the U. S. and Africa. Progress has been held up because none of the experimental animals would contract the African form of yellow fever. In the end it was Dr. Noguchi...
...Sophie had left Cairo in a huff and gone to London, not by plane, but by boat and express train. Lady Mary smiled with the pride of a perilous victory. Then, after 12 days' delay so that she might keep up the pretense that her London to South Africa jaunt had been undertaken for reasons of business rather than aeronautical rivalry, she started back from Cape Town to London-by plane...
Norman Douglas lives in Africa, Capri, Florence. He loves human converse, hates fatuous human conventions. Contemptuous of modern standards of morality, he promises little boys a penny to be "bad," a thrashing for being "good." Among his friends have been Conrad, Henry James, and Scott Moncrieff, brilliant translator of Marcel Proust...