Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Wars, poems, librettos, he wrote a book "Ton Days That Shook the World," the story of the Russian Revolution. He was Soviet Russia's first ambassador to the United States, came home and spent his time in courts fighting sedition charges, returned to Russia and died of typhoid fever there in 1920 and was buried under the Kremlin...
...waters drying, The dead devouring, the fever settling...
...spring of 1900," Mr. Rinehart declared when asked about the origin of this old tradition, "examinations were just over and the students were sitting around on the steps of the Yard dormitories, when the cry first became a fever. The atmosphere was tense, as it usually is between examinations and Commencement...
...Rinehart' at the top of his lungs and it had echoed throughout the Yard, the rest of the students picked it up, and within a few minutes the place was a bedlam. Most of the students did not even know who I was, but it caught like a fever and they were hanging out of the windows yelling 'Rinehart' at the top of their lungs. It was good exercise, and I didn't care, but the cry has stuck...
Argentine cattlemen would like to improve the milk production of their cows by breeding them with high-grade imported bulls. But bulls bought from the U. S. usually succumb to the tick fever now prevalent in Argentina. For the same reason U. S. owners are unwilling to ship their bulls to South America on a loan basis. Owners of the best bulls, in fact, generally refuse to ship their prizes anywhere at all, demand that the cows be brought to them. Nevertheless for many months Argentine cattlemen have had their eyes on two fine Holstein-Friesian bulls...