Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SPANISH-GUINEA...
Spain's second largest colony is her extremely fertile Guinea, a realm roughly as large as Maryland on Africa's West Coast. Last week 140,000 Guineans (mostly black) were appalled by doings at a dance on the Island of Annobon...
Virtual king of this island, and its only white resident, was Sergeant Restitute Castilla of the Spanish Colonial Guards. Weeks ago the lordly Sergeant began great preparations to entertain the Governor General of all Spanish Guinea. Island blacks were drilled in a wild, weird dance for His Excellency's edification. Came at last the great...
...Virginia. Dr. Maxcy knew that U. S. inhabitants are seldom lousy, suspected that some other blood-sucking insect might be the vector of mild U. S. typhus. Dr. Dyer, who in his career had dealt with rat-borne bubonic plague, suspected rat fleas, proved his hypothesis correct-first on guinea pigs, next (by accident) on two assistants, Martin Joseph Mannix and Dr. Elmer Theodore Ceder, lastly upon himself. "Where," he demanded as he wobbled home from the Naval Hospital, "Where do they get that 'mild' stuff...
Before the War, William A. Wilson was a chemist. After the War he was an invalid, unfit for strenuous work. In Springfield, Mo. he tried raising pigeons and guinea pigs, failed to make a living. Then he met H. B. Sutter, a fruit grower, who suggested raising white mice for scientific experiments. Two years ago they bought 20 mice, paired them. Every three to six weeks a white mouse produces a litter of eight to twelve white mouselets, who within three months are themselves producing litters of eight to twelve white mouselets. Last week the Wilson-Sutter mousery consisted...