Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Infantile paralysis is an infectious disease which attacks certain portions of the gray matter of the spinal cord, usually in children, inhibiting the motor action of the lower limbs. Comparatively little is known about it, although it has been the subject of exhaustive study since the great epidemic of 1916. Theories that it is spread by invisible discharges from the respiratory passages have not as yet been confirmed...
...your life extant." "In that case," remarked the patriarch, "your troubles are only just beginning . . ." and the story ends. The stories told by Kai Lung in his golden hours-fantastic, urbane, ironic, witty, courteous, magical- -these stories, naturally, are the substance of the book-jade emblems strung on a cord of Chinese silver, emblems marked with enchanted characters. The Significance. Kai Lung's Golden Hours is not a book to read at a sitting with breathless excite ment-it is a book to be dipped into and laid aside and dipped into again, and always with pleasure and refreshment...
...Inca tomb near Cajamarca, Peru, Francisco Loaysa, of Lima, found an elaborate " quipu," or knotted and decorated cord 16 yards long, used by the Incas as a calculating device for their decimal arithmetic system...
...addition to perfecting a new process for making and vulcanizing cord tires, Chairman C. B. Seger of the U. S. Rubber Co. announced a new and superior method of obtaining crude rubber itself for general purposes...
Contents of a crocodile's stomach (research conducted by the Royal Zoological Society of London) : Eleven brass arm rings, three coiled wire armlets, one glass bead necklace, 14 arm and leg bones (not all human), three spinal columns, one length bark cord (used by colored porters to carry bundles), 18 stones of assorted sizes, several porcupine quills. (The crocodile lived in Tanganyika Territory, British East Africa...