Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which bacteriologists have not discovered, into human-typhus virus which in turn is transmitted by lice in a much more virulent form. Professor Zinsser two years ago invented a vaccine to prevent human typhus (TIME, March 13, 1933). Before that, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service invented a vaccine to protect humans against rat typhus (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). Though the mortality rate of typhus under normal circumstances is low, it does run as high as 60% in a severe epidemic. An attack lasts about two weeks, leaves no marked after effects. Though Plague...
...Francis Christopher McCormack, Holy Name's medical director, summoned Bacteriologist William Hallock Park of New York City's Department of Health and Pathologist Leila Charlton Knox of St. Luke's Hospital to take the nine dead babies apart and search for the cause. Able Drs. Park and Knox could find no germ, no poison to account for the deaths...
...that a private company had a perfect right to buy territory from the natives. The early work was done behind a screen of humanitarian phrases about suppressing the slave trade and taking the Bible to the Congo, but Leopold, the exploiter, eventually merged. Leopold guarded his health, ate well, drank large quantities of hot water, hated his wife for bearing him daughters, took many mistresses, raised fruit, read the London Times, vied with Bismarck in his talent for official propaganda, worked from dawn to dusk. To support the ego of this promoter-king, black men were mauled by leopards, ripped...
...Pierce clerk may appear before a customer in his shirt sleeves. She has ordered that no matter how brilliant a man's mind may be, he shall not be employed unless he is physically fit. All applicants are examined by physicians; a clerk who neglects his health is fired. Partner Mercereau's office adjoins Mr. Pierce's. She often answers his calls, has an agreement with him that neither shall ride in an airplane...
...Harper prize with The Fault of Angels, his novel of Rochester, N. Y. and the Eastman-endowed opera there. His new novel also moves in musical circles with the usual allotment of squabbling artists. A composer, who has settled in Santa Fe, New Mex. for his health, struggles to complete his symphony, but his wife has social ambitions that conflict with work...