Word: colon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more bent on the ancient quest. For days and weeks they remained buried in a wilderness of swamp and jungle grass, with nothing to connect them to civilization but a small wireless outfit and the monotonously regular stretcher parties that bore their muttering burdens back to the hospital at Colon. Yesterday, however, came a radiogram. The leader of the expedition reported that of the eleven original members, three were still left in the party; they intended to continue their march in the morning...
Admiral Eberle must design the remedy for a naval ill of which the chief peculiarity is need for more protection from the Army. The report which he receives is confidential but its main features are already known from a "critique" held by the umpires last week. Assembled at the Colon Y. M. C. A., 400 officers heard the critique conducted by Admiral Robert E, Coontz, Commander of the U. S. Fleet, and Major General John L. Hines, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army. Admiral Coontz was the predecessor of Admiral Eberle as Chief of Naval Operations and former commander...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish author: "It was reported that I, ' seriously ill from an undetermined ailment,' was taken from the S.S. Franconia at Colon, C. Z., and removed to a hospital there...
...patient. Areas of dullness are distinguished for Catholics, Methodists, Seventh Day Adventists, Theosophists, Protestants and Jews! The diagnoses seem to be restricted in number, but include several serious microbic diseases ? tuberculosis, typhoid, acquired or congenital "diminished resistance" (euphemistic for syphilis), carcinoma (cancer), sarcoma (tumor), gonorrhea, malaria, influenza, colon septicaemia, streptococcus and staphylococcus infections. Most patients have traces of several of these, and the majority are found to have some form of syphilis. Autographs of Samuel Johnson, Poe, Longfellow, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Pepys and Bret Harte have been tested by Dr. Abrams, revealing that all of them suffered from various...
...first systematic investigation of Abrams is now under way, by the Scientific American (also investigating psychic phenomena?TIME, June 4). To an Abrams practitioner in New York, six tubes were submitted, containing pure cultures of typhoid, pneumococcus, colon septicaemia, tetanus, tuberculosis, diphtheria. None of them was correctly diagnosed, and all gave marked "ohmages" and vibratory rates for a number of diseases. Various explanations for the failure were made, and Dr. Abrams has promised to give personal demonstrations in New York for the Scientific American. An electrical expert, investigating for Science and Invention, points out technical inconsistencies which would condemn...