Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...UNDER MEDICINE SEPT. 25 ISSUE WRITEUP REGARDING KELSER INADEQUATE TO DO JUSTICE. AS MAJOR ARMY VETERINARY CORPS RECENTLY COMPLETED IN ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE BRILLIANTLY CONCLUSIVE RESEARCH ON ENCEPHALOMYELITIS AFFECTING HORSES. WAS LAUDED IN 1927 BY GOVERNOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD AND SURGEON GENERAL IRELAND FOR HEROIC VETERINARY SERVICE IN PHILIPPINES WHERE HIS RESEARCHES BROUGHT ABOUT CONTROL OF RINDERPEST EPIZOOTIC LYMPHANGITIS AND SURGEON GENERAL IRELAND OFFICIALLY REFERRED TO THIS SERVICE AS EPOCH MAKING. VETERINARY PROFESSION IS PROUD OF MAJOR KELSER...
...veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely to balk. Warning that if France wants to avoid inflation, the Frenchman's nightmare, she must make heroic sacrifices, M. Germain-Martin said...
...fever mosquito apparently transmits human sleeping sickness to rabbits. Last week his associate, Dr. James Stevens Simmons was in St. Louis with yellow fever mosquitoes and monkeys to try to find out how St. Louis' sleeping sickness epidemic spreads. Impatient with the slowness of animal experiment three volunteers, heroic but anonymous, let themselves be bitten by mosquitoes which had bitten encephalitis victims. As unpredictable as their infection by the bites is their recovery...
...where Mother Cabrini died in 1917. Last week was a busy and exciting one for the sisters in Columbus Hospital. The cause of Mother Cabrini after being heard in Rome had reached the stage of "Apostolic Process" in which a church tribunal could be held to investigate miracles and "heroic virtues." The Holy See ordered that it take place in Chicago with George Cardinal Mundelein as judge. "Devil's advocates" were appointed to cross-examine witnesses and eliminate spurious miracles. One of them, Monsignor Giovanni Delia Cioppa, came all the way from Rome. Churchmen could recall no such tribunal...
...Ernest Marland watched the founding of the Mellon fortune at sheriff's sales. In 1908 in Oklahoma he founded his own fortune when he struck a gusher on Willie-Cries-for-War's land. He built most of Ponca City, presented Oklahoma with Bryant Baker's heroic "Pioneer Woman" which stands at the entrance to his estate...