Word: cot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night in a tent pitched about a mile from Quemados, Cuba, thirsty mosquitoes sang their monotonous whining song; on a cot, Private John R. Kissinger lay awake. It was hot and sticky; he did not slap the stinging pests away. He had volunteered to Dr. Walter Reed, head of the U. S. Yellow Fever Commission, to subject himself to the bites of mosquitoes that had sucked the blood of men ill with the fever; in 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...
...last week Their Majesties were still reigning in the good old way. At the London Hospital, Queen-Empress Mary bent for a moment last week over a crippled girl's cot...
Then, turning to the brown-bearded man who was standing near a cot across the aisle, Her Majesty continued: "Come here, George. This little girl wonders why we are not wearing our crowns. This is the King, my dear...
Poultry statistics compiled by the Wall Street Journal state that this business is now equal to that of the U. S. wheat crop. Only corn, cot- ton, hay surpass. Minnesota and Missouri reported rapid growth in poultry values...
...Would Mrs. McPherson come with her to see a dying baby? In a sedan parked by the shore, another woman sat holding a bundle baby-wise; she got into the car, a coat was thrown over her head, a sickly sweet odor sickened her. . . . She woke somewhere in a cot at dawn. Two men stood over her. One of them was named Steve. The woman's name was Rose. They told her that she could go free as soon as her mother (Mrs. Minnie Kennedy) or her congregation raised $500,000 ransom. . . . (Later version...