Word: bites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, are to be taken with about as much seriousness as the exaggerated platform promises of U. S. statesmen. Naturally General Hertzog's platform must satisfy his large Dutch secessionist following; and, like many another sly old dog, he relies more on his bark than on his bite...
...fact was that the blood had been drained from a monkey. Its heart and lungs ceased functioning. For 55 minutes it lay dead. Then the experimenter, Prof. Mikhaelovsky, pumped the blood back into the monkey. It revived and tried to bite the experimenter's hand. Inference: blood contains some element that stimulates the heart to beat; death is not always irreparable...
...Another distinguished yellow fever worker is Dr. Aristides Agramonte, native of Havana, Cuba. He is the sole surviving member of the heroic Army Commission of the U. S., which in 1900 went into Cuba determined to clear up the mystery of yellow fever. They submitted their bodies to the bite of infected mosquitoes and established beyond dispute that yellow fever is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes of the species Stegomyia fasciata. But the commission was unable to identify the germ. Since then there have been many attempts, many false alarms. Researcher Noguchi's Leptospira icteroides has received...
Cried Eleutherios Venizelos, "Let her go! I command it!" Physicians pronounced the bite "clean," scouted rumors of hydrophobia...
...king in whose name the bite was taken is George II, now banished, who recently and superfluously announced that he would return and rule over his country if called upon to do so by a national plebiscite...