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...malaria parasite is generally carried by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which breed in marshes and dead pools...
Climax of this historical build-up was a horrible example: the dismembered body of a comfortable old-fashioned overstuffed easy chair which lay behind the bars of a big animal cage under a life-size photograph of Gorilla Gargantua. Said an accompanying placard: "Cathedra gargantua, genus americanus. Weight when fully matured, 60 pounds. Habitat, the American Home. Devours little children, pencils, small change, fountain pens, bracelets, clips, earrings, scissors, hairpins, and other small flora and fauna of the domestic jungle. Is far from extinct...
Often it takes several years before the Genus Harvardianus sees the light and follows Horace Greeley's advice. Somewhere off in the wilds of New England lie Smith and Bennington, the one 90 miles away, the other 200. Then, just across the state border lies the third of the green field trio, Vassar, 213.5 miles from Cambridge. These three colleges are inhabited by Powers-worthy beauties and an unfortunate number of Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Williams, and Dartmouth men. Their very difficulty of attainment lends them a charm...
...Imperial Majesty invited foreign diplomats, Government officials and wearers of Imperial decorations into the Imperial Park to contemplate his chrysanthemums, arranged in martial rows and patterns of incredible genus and color, arrayed in booths as mountains, cascades, rivers. In the Palace. Hirohito performed certain religious mysteries, and read aloud a poetic rescript. He climaxed the week by showing himself before the people...
Malaria is caused by an amebalike parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The parasite, which enters man's bloodstream through a mosquito bite, often destroys over a million red blood corpuscles per cubic millimetre in one bout of malaria...