Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dying from recurrent cancer of the breast, came to the attention of Dr. Mendel Jacobi of Brooklyn. Dr. Jacobi injected a small quantity of a solution under the skin of the woman's diseased armpit. That solution was a filtrate of Bacillus typhostis, the germ which causes typhoid fever. Twenty-four hours later Dr. Jacobi administered a second injection of the filtrate intravenously...
Ballet had suddenly become a rage not only in Manhattan but in 100 other U. S. cities visited by the Monte Carlo dancers since last October. The fever began in earnest last season when the company toured 20,000 miles, surprised everyone by grossing $1,000,000. This season more ground was covered, with earnings even greater. The Ballet danced with the leading symphony orchestras in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit. It played to capacity audiences in cities which had never seen a ballet. There were sold-out houses in Little Rock, Ark., El Paso, Tex., Portland...
Serge Taneiev's First Symphony in C is also to be played. Taneiev (1856-1915) was a noted Russian composer and teacher whose compositions have in late years been almost neglected. This symphony, written in 1898, is hardly one to arouse enthusiasm to a fever pitch, but it is not without a certain "perfection of formal beauty", as one writer...
...Fishberg, who does not know how to bake potatoes in her kitchen stove, learned the particular symptoms of fever by baking healthy human beings at a temperature of 106° F. She used one of the big radiothermic ovens which General Electric's Dr. Willis Rodney Whitney designed and loaned to a few U. S. hospitals for the heat treatment of syphilis and gonorrhea (TIME, April 22, et ante). For proof that her test subjects develop pure fevers and nothing else, Dr. Fishberg usually heats them until fever blisters form on their lips. As demonstration of how to offset...
Died. Marilyn Miller, 37, musicomedienne (Sally, Sunny, Smiles); of hyperpyrexia (high fever) following sinus infection and osteomyelitis of the jaw; in Manhattan...