Word: germs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifteen thousand dollars dropped from the treasury of the Carnegie Corporation last week as the germ of a series of Carnegie Summer Art Centers, traveling lectureships, scholarships at universities throughout the country. Two-thirds of the germ landed at Harvard where instructors and graduate students from 20 U. S. colleges will attend lectures in the new Fogg Art Museum given by bushy-mustached George Harold Edgell, dean of the Harvard School of Architecture and dapper Paul Joseph Sachs, associate director of the Fogg Museum, brother of Banker Walter Edward (Goldman) Sachs...
...John Arthur Franklin Pfeiffer of Baltimore last week declared that he had found a germ which he believes to be the cause of the common cold. He said he had seen it under his microscope, a spherical germ occurring in pairs and sometimes in rows. After he had isolated it he tested it out on healthy humans by spraying a culture into their noses. In 24 hours they would develop strong nasal colds. A vaccine made from the culture and injected under their skins "would break up the cold in short order...
...killed 10,000,000 over the world. Although San Francisco is one of the five known endemic foci of bubonic plague,* very seldom does a case now appear in the U. S. Rats, ground squirrels (the chief cause in California) and other rodents carry the germ, Bacillus pestis. Fleas bite the rats, then carry the bacilli to man's habitations, his clothes, his body. To prevent the disease, rodents must be exterminated and their fleas kept from humans through personal hygiene. Drs. Long and Eskey cleaned Guayaquil by drastically cleaning the city of vermin and teaching the inhabitants personal...
...porcelain filter and still infect animals. In pathology this virus has special interest. It was the first ultramicroscopic, filterable virus discovered (1898), and gave a clue to many mysterious causes of disease. As to just what such viruses are, bacteriologists are not unanimous. They may be a kind of germ; they may be a kind of chemical...
...recognition that the economic difficulty is a mathematical, not a moral difficulty, and that many of the popular panaceas advanced, like Socialism and Communism, are as futile as the efforts of a society for the prevention of spots in smallpox which refused to take any cognizance of the smallpox germ...