Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thursday evening, the Glee Club gave their second concert at Symphony Hall. The soloists were George Renwick, Lyle Ring and Morris Brown; and Mile. Guiomar Novaes, the Brazilian pianist, and M. Georges Laurent, flutist, were assisting artists...
From the snake house his poison is shipped to the Harvard laboratory, and thence to Brazil, where the Brazilian government runs a large serum plant. Long years of study have developed a method of procuring serum by injecting minute quantities of the poison of a given species into a horse. Gradually, the dos s are increased, until its blood begins to manufacture an antidote to this special poison and eventually becomes immune to it. From the blood of the horse the antidote is extracted, and this in turn is preserved and sent to hospitals so that it may be used...
When we hear that a young Brazilian scientist has landed in New York who claims that by a process of blood irrigation he can revive the dead, change a negro into a white man, reduce one's necessary modicum of sleep from eight hours to one, and indefinitely prolong life, we do not know whether to be amused or amazed...