Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening of Congress were surprised to see a small brown-haired girl, handsome as a magazine cover, pert in plaid jacket, black skirt and yellow hair-ribbon, chasing down the aisles of the House, talking to distinguished members, having her picture taken, carrying messages. She was Gene Cox, 13, eye-apple youngest daughter of Georgia's cantankerous Representative Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Over the protests of Doorkeeper Joe Sinnott, who feared it would "get into the newspapers" and start a rush by other doting parents to have the same done for their girls, Father Cox had Gene sworn...
From the U. S. Public Health Service last week came a new, streamlined mass-production method of culturing Rickettsia prowazeki. Bacteriologist Herald Rea Cox of the Rocky Mountain Laboratory at Hamilton, Mont., announced that he had injected the yolks of fertile, six-day-old chicken eggs with viruses of typhus fever as well as those of the related Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which occurs chiefly in Western States...
...sealed the hole with paraffin. In three or four days he removed the infected yolks, dried and ground them, diluted them in salt water, produced a remarkably virulent suspension of Rickettsiae, which lost none of its power when passed through ten series of eggs. "The technique," said Bacteriologist Cox, "is very simple, and permits a minimum of contamination." The simplicity of this operation should permit him to make thousands of doses of typhus vaccine in the time it takes Poland's Weigl to make...
Harvard spares--Hulse, Ervin, Eaton, Willetts, Carstein, Hunnewell, De-Rahm, Coleman, Cox, Perkins...
...seniority, because of recalcitrant Mr. O'Connor's defeat, faced an unhappy situation. Of three New Deal members of the committee, two went down to defeat like Mr. O'Connor, leaving Mr. Sabath alone. But five anti-New Deal Democrats -including Georgia's bitter Cox and loud Martin Dies of Texas-survived, and four Republicans. With only four vacancies to be filled, Mr. Sabath had little hope of getting a committee that would follow his lead...