Word: fever
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failure of peace and the possibility of a new super-struggle. Asia, of course, was picked as the seat of the next world broil-with the brooding Balkans as an alternative. The World's Work, for example, devoted nearly its entire April issue to such subjects as: "Fever Spots in the World's Politics," "Where the Next World War will Start," "How We Shall Lose the Next...
...President Baker has stuck to his Bank of the Manhattan Co., the corporation which his grandfather (another Stephen Baker) helped conniving Aaron Burr create in 1799, ostensibly to furnish Manhattan drinking water against the yellow fever epidemic of that year, really to weasel a banking institution through the objections of Alexander Hamilton, whom Burr hated and later killed in duel...
Doctors now realize the value of simple, explanatory articles on cancer, heart disease, tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, quackery, and so on (TIME, May 3, 17, June 21, Aug. 30, Sept. 13 Oct. 4, 18, 25, Jan. 17, 31, Feb. 7, 14, etc.). But a few doctors yet lag with their cooperation. These men President Wendell C. Phillips of the American Medical Association scolded last week, when he opened a conference of 50 voluntary and public health organizations at Chicago. Said he: "The medical profession should throw off its mask of reticence and its shrinking attitude toward reasonable publicity concerning health...
...lethargica (sleeping sickness) two years ago when Mrs. Jane Norton Grew Morgan, wife of John Pierpont Morgan contracted the disease. She drowsed for eight weeks, then died. Nor do doctors yet know how to cure it. It is one of the small number of diseases, including cancer and rheumatic fever, of which the cause is still obscure, and because the cause remains hidden the proper mode of treatment must of necessity remain haphazard and the cure a matter more of chance than of science...
...rush and scrabble for some of the $78,000 lode struck lately at Weepah, down near the slanting California lino (TIME, March 21), continued last week to swell and assume bright color. Blizzards and gales that swept Weepah tenters down the canon, did not cool the yellow metal fever. Nearby Tonopah, base camp for the skirmishers, buzzed with brokers, show girls, sour-doughs, eager tourists. Buying and selling of mine shares was fast and furious, all in cash. Claims changed hands. The biggest price...