Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rabbit fever, or tularemia, a plaguelike infection to which rabbits and squirrels fall prey, can be transmitted to man either by an intermediate host-louse or flea-or by direct contact with an infected animal. It first appears as an ulcerous spot on human skin which is followed by swollen glands, chills & fever, sometimes by death. Within an ace of death -by rabbit fever had come 23-year-old Adelaide Dawson, released last week from the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital after two blood transfusions from persons who had recovered from the disease. Source of her infection, she thought...
...worth of that sport to a student in after college life. On this basis the two American major sports are golf and tennis. With regard to the latter the University has ample facilities, but in the former only the good graces of a neighboring golf course mogul allow any direct Harvard participation...
...listening to the Glee Club sing several Mozart songs and the Radcliffe Choral Society present some Shubert waltzes, they marched onto the platform, one of their number (whose only tell-tale mark seem to be a well developed mid-riff) stepped out in front an proceeded very capably to direct the group in two Mozart selections and a French carol. "Les Anges dans nos Campagne...
...York have been kept in operation in recent years only by loans totaling $16.582.000 from Reconstruction Finance Corp. Both lines are part of the old Van Sweringen system and ! last month they b came even more closely related when the Interstate Commerce Commission permitted C. & O. to take direct control of the Erie by acquiring the 50% of Erie stock held by C. & 0. owned Virginia Transportation Corp. and Alleghany Corp. But, as was proved last week, formal adoption by a rich uncle did not put a silver spoon into Erie's mouth...
Chemistry and Physics students will find companies sending representatives direct to their respective Departments, while other contacts will be available through their professors individually. At the same times, the Alumni Placement Office each year bears of many opportunities for men who wish to apply their scientific training to industrial work...