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Word: coverlets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foraging ants found the milk drippings, scurried back to the ant hill with the tidings. When Mrs. Patrick returned from the tomato patch, the crib, the coverlet, Harold's head were a rusty-red quiver. The baby was unconscious. Doctors thought that he might recover from the ant-bite poison (formic acid). But the red ants, like the all-devouring soldier ants which terrorize tropical Asia, had nipped the sight from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ants Over Child | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...help her husband cultivate the vines. Unobserved by the Patricks, shack-living tenant farmers of Bells, Tenn., when they placed the child's crib on the ground, was a red ant hill. Nor did Mother Patrick notice that her son's milk bottle was leaking on the coverlet, dripping to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ants Over Child | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

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