Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the team will be picked from a national rather than an exclusively Meadow Brook squad is a salute to the British. After repeated defeats the British have accepted the introduction of hard-riding, bumping, slashing and swatting to the "gentleman's game." Particularly they have tried to develop the Milburn-Hitch-cock style of tremendous hitting...
Conclusions: "Life may be made so easy for [rich] children that it is difficult for them to develop the qualities of character that are essential for successful school life...
...Science at Manila, announced a culture. Last year Dr. Ernest L. Walker of the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, San Francisco, announced another culture. Their methods of growing the leprosy bacilli, however, were not satisfactory. Professor Shiga was seeking a better method. But his infected mice did not develop leprosy. Then he tried moles. They caught the disease...
Next thought was: why did the moles and not the mice develop leprosy? Was it because the moles lived underground, ate earthworms, lacked normal vitamins? He raised some mice on diets lacking certain vitamins and infected them with leprosy. Like the moles, but unlike the normal mice they broke out with the nauseating stigmata of leprosy. Here then was excellent proof that he had a virulent strain of the germ, which under special conditions might be prepared as a vaccine...
...Although my experiments are not completed, I have no doubt that within the near future, as we are able to experiment with other animals, we shall be able to develop means of protection against leprosy by vaccination, as well as to discover suitable means of treatment...