Word: fever
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discretion got the upper hand over his enthusiasm before it was too late to catch the last train back to Boston, and the evening was spent quietly reading a South Sea island story in his suite in the tower of Memorial Hall. So the annual fever has come and gone and left only a few bruises and the regret that he had not had the sense to buy earmuffs...
...year passes. Florence is within a few hours of maternity when a cable comes from Switzerland. Junior, at a fashionable school, is dying of typhoid fever. Walter, distrait, ignoring the living Florence and her unborn child, arranges for a quick trip to Switzerland. He leaves, but not before she has spoken her piece...
...keeps abreast of the foibles of the art world, but turns from them to pulsating scenes about him. No one is bewildered by Davidson sculpture. He builds no weird convocations of planes, no fever ish conceits of form. Like the sculptors of the Roman tribunes, his primary con cern is the search for character. The roster of Davidson subjects includes Anatole France, Feodor Chaliapin, Charles Gates Dawes, John Joseph Pershing, Wellington Koo, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order...
...Health Service, discoverer of "vitamin PP" as a preventive of pellagra (disease resulting from unbalanced diet); of hypernephroma, a malignant growth on the kidneys resembling cancer; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. A martyr to science, he had within 15 years investigated and contracted the following diseases: typhus fever (Mexico City), yellow fever (New Orleans), bone-breaking fever (Brownsville...
Their interest in chemistry, particularly in medical chemistry, is more personal than philanthropical. Just before the War ended, the Garvan's baby Patricia, a lovely child, developed rheumatic fever following influenza. Some of the best of the country's physicians, drawn into consultation, confessed themselves utterly powerless to save her. She died. Doctors know not yet how to cure rheumatic fever not even its cause. In search of cause & cure of that disease and of a score of others the Garvans are quietly giving their money. A footnote to their unobtrusiveness is the fact that Mr. Garvan...