Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headquarters for the proposed expedition. In December 1806 Burr was at the mouth of the Cumberland with 60 stalwart recruits, waiting for the flotilla of keelboats and supplies of men and munitions which were being assembled at Blennerhassett Island. But they never arrived. At this critical juncture a Federal agent, detailed to spy on Burr and Blennerhassett, sent back his report to Washington. President Jefferson issued a proclamation warning citizens not to give aid to Burr's plan. Shortly a detachment of Virginia militia raided and looted the island, just missed catching its master. Before next spring, Aaron Burr...
...inattention had not sent the car he was driving off the road and crashing into a tree (TIME, Sept. 9). The Queen is buried in Belgium but around the tiny plot of Swiss soil Leopold III ordered built a low wall with a cross erected inside. Indignantly the agent who effected purchase of this piteous plot said that its Swiss owners had "made things very difficult...
...Porter's warning: "In all cases with chronic sinusitis swimming and diving in fresh water and public bathing beaches should be prohibited. It is well to remember that any chlorine or other purifying agent in a pool strong enough to kill bacteria with any degree of speed is more than likely to temporarily paralyze or damage the delicate mucous membrane of the nose and sinuses, thereby tending to promote infection...
...insulin, he has some inhibiting factor in his blood which prevents that hormone from acting on carbohydrates. That class of diabetics benefit, Dr. MacBryde found, when they eat great quantities of candy, pastry, bread, potatoes, spaghetti. The excess carbohydrate does two things. It blocks the action of that inhibiting agent, and it stimulates the pancreas supply of insulin to the system. A few injections of insulin, said Dr. MacBryde, should tell the observant doctor what type of diabetic his patient is, what foods to let him have...
...whose mistress he had stolen. His release from prison after this scandalous affair made him a popular hero, since it was considered a triumph over arrogant nobles. His pamphlets and the success of The Barber of Seville made him famed. But he was still poor, and as a secret agent of Louis XVI, authorized to prevent the publication of damaging pamphlets, he printed others, then paid himself for destroying them. He was arrested by Queen Maria Theresa of Austria when he tried to blackmail her with a pamphlet relating that her daughter, Marie Antoinette, would bear no legitimate children...