Word: diphtheria
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...Clyde Plank of the Colorado National Guard, soared over. They flew to Silverton, Col., 200 miles from Denver, over crags and chasms no one had ever before crossed. All of Silverton, for four weeks completely snowbound, floundered over to the town baseball lot to see mail, food, newspapers and diphtheria antitoxin drop from the skies into a snowbank. The factory siren kept up a steady shriek. Oldest inhabitants ants shifted their quids to ejaculate. It was not only the first visitor in a month but their first airplane ever-just skimming the housetops, circling higher, shining in the sun, veering...
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.; enrollment, 3,146) suspended all classes one afternoon last week so that the students might parade to the railroad station, return and present to President Frank Palmer Speare a muscular, thick-furred canine, one of the famed Husky-dog team that took diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in 1925. It was a gift, a new Northeastern mascot, from Dog-driver Leonhard Seppala. Driver Seppala was present. He and the dog rode on a float from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard...
...Angeles, Calif., idlers, bummers, run-dums, hooligans, drugstore cowboys, shuffled into a dime museum "for men only" to gawp at stimulating pictures, grisly specimens, pickled freaks, wax wonders, and at Balto, famed Alaskan husky dog, who pulled the lead trace on the sledge that carried diphtheria antitoxin to Nome two winters ago; the dog to whom Manhattan erected a bronze statue...
Twenty-five years ago this array was otherwise. Tuberculosis then was the chief cause of death. But doctors have taught defense against contaminated surroundings. People have learned to guard themselves. So typhoid, yellow and scarlet fevers, diphtheria, cholera and babies' bowel troubles are no longer pandemic and rarely epidemic in civilized countries. People live, on the average, ten years longer now than they...
...Minister of Aeronautics, celebrated his 43rd birthday last week by assuming a sixth Cabinet post, the Ministry of Corporations. He spent the day at Forli, his country estate (TIME, June 21) with Signora Rachele Mussolini (née Guidi) and their daughter Edda, now recovering from an attack of diphtheria. During the week, Signor Mussolini, once the loudest and most often vocal of European statesmen pursued his recent "policy of silence" (TIME, May 3) by issuing three written orders: Sicilian Riots. General di Giorgio to proceed at once to Sicily with an armed force and full authority to put down...