Word: contagion
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...cited, as witnessed by Sir Arnold Hodson, of a woman buried up to her neck for three days until some one finished her with a large rock. With absolute indifference for life, lepers numbering about 100,000 are permitted to wander freely in Ethiopia, with the perpetual danger of contagion...
...cases now reported have come from Kirkland House and Dr. Paul H. Means, medical adviser declared that the slight epidemic seemed to be limited to that House. He stated that there appeared to be no danger of a general contagion but urged that all students showing the symptoms, which resemble an ordinary cold, report to the Hygiene Building...
...Society of Fellows, a unique development in American Education, is expected to stimulate "intellectual contagion beyond anything now in this country." The newly elected members will receive free room and board, free use of all University facilities, and a stipend of $1,250, with the chance of reappointment after the first term of three years have expired...
...mosquitoes. Dr. Lazear died of it. Even then their experiments were scientifically incomplete. Dr. Reed called for four soldiers to volunteer as human guinea pigs. Two of them got bites from Finlay mosquitoes. The other two were placed in insanitary surroundings where, if the disease could be transmitted by contagion, they were sure to catch it. When only the two soldiers who were bitten by mosquitoes contracted yellow jack, it amounted to Science's first important victory over yellow fever, the beginning of the final extermination of that plague. The history of the Yellow Fever Commission made...
...absolutely essential," declared A. S. Dewing '02, professor of Finance in the Business School, in an interview last night. "When a few banks failed in the Middle West, merchants in the districts affected, immediately sought to draw all their funds from the banks which still remained solvent, and this contagion for withdrawal spread throughout the country until moratoriums became unavoidable if whole areas were to be saved from financial ruin. New England is not one of those areas,--it is in better condition than any other part of the nation...