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...lowlands until some traveling hillsman comes along, upon whom it can lay its many clutches. Actually the cause of cholera is a microbe shaped like a comma, which enters the body only through the mouth, infests the digestive tract, irritates the bowels to such extent that they extract and eject quarts of fluid from the body. A victim of cholera may die-shriveled and cold from dehydration, uremia and toxemia-within four or five days of exposure to infection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cholera | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...speech which began "In the name of the Fatherland. . . ." Tumult erupted, the police were called and the lights of the Chamber were extinguished, but the deputies, milling about in semidarkness, managed to keep the prorogation order from being read, voted nonconfidence 180-to-17. The police, ordered to eject the deputies by force, mutinously refused. Finally the deputies dispersed, marching out through lanes of police and most of them going to a nearby Wafd Club, where they were told by Nahas Pasha: "The Chamber has not been prorogued. It can still legislate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Royal Fascist? | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Canadian press last week was calling "Mr. X." When Husband Clarke quit after siring only four children, Mr. Madill unselfishly stepped in to sire five more. By last week Mrs. Clarke's confidence in this second collaborator had somewhat waned, and after obtaining a court order to eject Mr. X from her house she was trying out a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Mr. X & Mr. Y | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...Eject that man", directed Senator James Mackay above the roar of hisses as he ended the Child Labor Amendment hearing at the State House yesterday. Kenneth Taylor of the Federation of Labor beat three constables to the door and to the picket line on the Common, ringing down the curtain on one of the best shows of the winter. Since the rule for these occasions is that one Harvard Professor is worth four press-agents, the presence of President-emeritus Lowell and John Raymond Walsh practically guaranteed a page one story. What could not be seen at the start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOTHER SENATE IN LABOR | 2/19/1937 | See Source »

...grew angrier & angrier for 28 consecutive hours debating relief for Britain's jobless until finally the House had to be suspended in its most unruly scene since 1881 when police were called to eject honorable members by force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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