Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Despite the numerous species of poisonous snakes in North and South America, there is now an antivenin for every kind of snake poison in the western hemisphere," stated Dr. Afranio do Amaral, noted ophiologist and director of the Instituto Butantan at Sao Paulo, Brazil, in an interview yesterday...
...they spoiled? . . . When they are ill, they have to go to hospital, to get the care that an ordinary Englishwoman . . . would get from her servant as a matter of course. . . . There are many towns in America without one single, solitary servant, towns where all the women have to do their own housework, cooking, most of the washing, and usually the gardening...
...millionaires of America, though much in the public eye, are in a microscopic minority, and it is no fairer to judge [American women] by the wives of millionaires than it would be, for example, to generalize about Englishwomen from the riders in the Row or the owners of boxes at the Opera...
...South America has no endowed school for the teaching of general aeronautics. With the poor development of land transportation, there is a great opportunity for planes to carry passengers, mail and express over the greater part of the continent. This enterprising air transport companies are beginning to do-largely with planes bought in Europe...
...when the American Institute of Chemists last week pondered upon which one of the Garvans to give their medal 'for noteworthy and outstanding service to the science of chemistry and the profession of Chemist in America," there was no intelligent solution except to give it to them jointly...