Word: bout
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Malaria is caused by an amebalike parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The parasite, which enters man's bloodstream through a mosquito bite, often destroys over a million red blood corpuscles per cubic millimetre in one bout of malaria...
...main bout was on the Central American front, where Am Ex bought the Central American line TACA. Pan Am wasted no time in attacking there too. As much at home in palaces as clouds, Pan Am persuaded tough, handsome General Jorge Ubico, Guatemala's Dictator-President, to let it fly in his country, hitherto a TACA demesne. Pan Am immediately formed Aerovias de Guatemala, put big, heavyset, American-born Alfred Denby in charge. Fortune-hunter Denby owns Guatemala's biggest butcher shop, rates high with General Ubico. This month Aerovias, which has been conducting survey flights with sleek...
Philharmonic-Symphony in December-his first bout with a big orchestra-will have to blow like Kell...
Most successful U. S. short-wave broadcast to date was the airing last February of the bout between Joe Louis and Arturo Godoy, the Chilean heavyweight champion of South America. Sponsored by Standard Oil Co. of N. J. over NBC, the program was picked up by 130 local stations scattered through the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America. NBC is the only short-wave operator that has as yet devoted much time to commercial programs...
WinnersLosers Score Comment Harvard Amherst 27-0 Amherst lacks punch Boston U. Upsula 27-7 Terriers too tough Duke Tennesota 10-7 Hattle of lines Minnesota Nebraska 13-7 A corking bout Princeton Vanderbilt 20-7 Vanday is weak Middlebury Tufts 13-7 Not twice in a row Brown Rhode Island 20-0 Bruin gathers momentum L. S. C. Holy Cross 20-14 Pass them dizzy Indians Texas 20-13 Hail to Cream and Crimson Missouri Pitt 14-13 Reserves will tell U. S. C. Oregon State 13-0 Trojans will leave horse Clemson North Car. State 20-7 Tigers...