Word: funguses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shorn of this special nationalist fungus, geopolitics is a simple, sensible, and often obvious business, based on the plain truth that geography influences history. At Munich's Geopolitical Institute, Haushofer did much painstaking, genuinely scientific work. Almost directly derived from Brit ain's distinguished geographer, Sir Halford Mackinder, were his more significant theorems...
...deaths of Dr. Henderson and Rose Parrott, within six weeks of each other, had spurred Congress into appropriating the money. The lab will be divided into six isolated sections, each devoted to a single type of disease (e.g., tularemia, scrub typhus, influenza, fungus infections). Reporting for work, each Institute employe will doff his street clothes in one room, put on laboratory clothes in another. He will handle germs by slipping rubber-gloved hands into hand holes, under a carefully ventilated glass hood. The automatically sterilized animal rooms will be arranged so that air blows from the worker toward the animals...
...Fungus infections of trunk, thighs, face, scalp. These may be red, white or various shades of brown, may produce temporary baldness...
...Impetigo and scabies. These are not as common as the fungus infections, are very itchy and catching, especially when men do not bathe frequently...
...Young, who paid $8,500 down on a ten-room Hollywood house owned by Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel, longtime friend to bigtime gangsters, was sued by him for the balance of $85,000. She explained that the deal depended on Bugsy's eliminating all the house's "termites, fungus and dry rot." Her claim: "Siegel has refused to spend more than $250 for elimination of termites. It's going to cost a great deal more than that...