Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foretold by legend and announced by mystics, there comes periodically upon Japan the dread Hinuma or "year of the Sign of the Horse...
...health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
That film-on-teeth suggestion that Lord & Thomas somehow conveyed to you is one example of so-called "reason why" copy. A "reason why" advanced for the makers of Dr. Forhan's toothpaste is that four out of five unfortunates develop a dread gum-disease through failure to use this preventive...
...CANCER CAN BE CURED The Dread Disease Yields to Dietary Methods are Treatment, and Triumphant - Less Non-Surgical Than Forty Per Cent Deaths as Compared with Ninety Per Cent in Operative Methods - Sufferers at Last May Escape the Gory Knives of the Obstinate, Archaic Blood-Letters...
...volunteered to nurse sick women friends, whose deaths she caused by introducing poison into the drugs prescribed for them by their physicians. Her first and most revolting murder was accomplished when she poisoned her fiance, "for the pleasure of watching his death agony," and celebrated over his corpse the dread "Mass of Satan." It was the latter which made France shiver...