Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dicks. Seven years ago in Chicago Dr. George Dick started to hunt for the germ of scarlet fever with hopes of developing a cure and a preventive. His own money income was meagre. He could get no supplement from institutions. So his wife, Dr. Gladys H. Dick, who has long been his coworker, found a job as technician in an Evanston, Ill., hospital, earned enough money to buy them laboratory supplies, scrimped over their household expenses. They found their germ and two years ago perfected their technique of cure and prevention. Topping this, to them satisfactory reward, the immunologists, bacteriologists...
...Philadelphia, a boy and a dog played together. The name of the one was Dick McDevitt (six years old)*; the name of the other was Ruff (an Airedale). While they did not actually talk to each other, they had found that by pats, grimaces and tender looks, they could communicate better than much older people. In the daytime the great crinkly dog padded by the side of the boy, whose head barely reached his shoulder; at night he curled at the foot of the boy's bed. Nothing could ever separate them, they thought−but something...
Died. Rear Admiral Richard ("Fighting Dick") Wainwright, 76, in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C., of heart failure. He was executive officer of the U. S. S. Maine when she was mined in Havana harbor by Spain. When the Spanish commandant ordered his men to strike the Maine's flag, he roared words long remembered in the Navy: "If a Spaniard touches the flag that flies over that wreck, there'll be another wreck in Havana harbor...
...Graduate Schools of Harvard and Radcliffe will give a dance tomorrow night from 8 to 12 o'clock at Agassiz House, Radcliffe. Men in all the Graduate Schools of the University are cordially invited. Dick Bowers and his Venice-Lido Orchestra will furnish the music. Admission will be seventy-five cents a person...
...Rovers are Dick...