Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hideyo Noguchi, 51, native of Japan, discoverer of the germ and the curative serum for South American yellow fever; of African yellow fever, in Accra, West Africa. He had been working in conjunction with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to find the African yellow fever germ. On the fifth day of his illness he had a monkey injected with a few drops of his own infected blood. The monkey died. Fifty other monkeys were infected and died (TIME, May 21). Thus Dr. Noguchi had discovered the African germ, and was planning to work for a serum when death came...
...seconds. Nichols of the University of California. Wells and Marsters of Dartmouth and Kieselhorst of Yale will probably be fighting Tupper for second place. Tupper has an excellent chance to follow Payne across the finish line, as he took the Dartmouth event two weeks ago, shaving a fifth of a second from Wells' old record...
...been held up because none of the experimental animals would contract the African form of yellow fever. In the end it was Dr. Noguchi him self who went to Accra on the West coast of Africa to experiment, was there taken to the hospital with yellow fever. On the fifth day when his high temperature was reluctantly dropping and the second stage of the disease had set in, he had a monkey from India (Macacus rhesus) inoculated with his infected blood. The monkey died twelve days later from a severe case of yellow fever. Fifty more monkeys were inoculated...
...help- he was two strokes behind. A minute later the people were carrying Hagen on their shoulders to the clubhouse where the Prince of Wales would give him the cup. Hastily Jurado handed in his own score, an 80 that put him in a tie with Barnes for fifth place, noticing as he passed the board that Hagen's total was 292, Sara-zen's 294, Archie Compston...
...following statements were made to the Crimson last night by Coach E.L. Farrell of the University track team, and Coach George Connors of Yale on the eve of the thirty-fifth Harvard-Yale dual meet...