Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this way the Commission hoped to find whether the mosquito carried the deadly germ.* He made the offer knowing that his chances for life were less than one in 20, if he became infected. That night was nearly 27 years ago. Last week scientists and doctors opened a campaign to raise money to help onetime Private Kissinger. Not long ago friends had found him nearly destitute, broken in body and mind from the illnesses that followed the yellow fever he caught that night near Quemados. For nearly 20 years, he has lain in a wheel-chair suffering from spinal myelitis...
...crown the anti-Yaqui campaign of the week, came news that War Minister Amaro was seriously wounded by a reputed Yaqui sniper near Ocotlan- though in other despatches he who sniped was said to be a mutinied Mexican trooper...
...Ignatius and Henrietta (Grey) Sargent. He prepared for college at Dixwell's School and received his degree in 1862. The following year he entered the service of his country, becoming a Lieutenant in the Second Louisiana Infantry. He was breveted Major "for faithful and meritorious service" during the campaign against Mobile. Following his honorable discharge at the end of the war, he turned his attention to horticulture and arboreal pursuits, identifying himself with Harvard, where he was Professor of Horticulture and then a Director of the Botanic Garden, holding the latter position until after the creation of the Arnold Arboretum...
Considering the fact that metropolitan newspapers were almost universally unfavorable when the campaign for the reorganization of intercollegiate football was launched a year and a half ago the very favorable press comments upon President Hopkins' proposal published in an adjoining column are highly significant of the very definite change of opinion which has taken place in the interval...
...Coady '27, captain of the University football team last fall, and other players on his team who are graduating this June will also help Coach Horween open his 1927 campaign...