Word: iii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Immediately on his arrival that evening the white mice were inoculated with Floyd Bennett's sputum. Just before midnight the results of the inoculation were published. The bulletin read: "The type of pneumonia from which Bennett is suffering has been disclosed by the inoculation of mice as type III." A simple statement, but it meant the sera were useless, the flight was in vain, the breaks were against Bennett...
...Pneumonia. A large family of organisms called the pneumococci are responsible for the various types of pneumonia. They fall into four great groups, Types I, II, III, IV. For Types I and II excellent sera have been prepared from horses. These can be found in any large city in the world, including Montreal, although there was none obtainable in Quebec. Horse serum, however, makes many sick people worse. The foreign proteins introduced into the human body may cause chills, sweating, suffocation, fainting: obviously not the best stimulation for a Floyd Bennett with a temperature of 103 degrees; a pulse...
...England's mellowest legends concerns a Countess of Salisbury who found her garter slipping, in the merry, ardent days of Edward III (1312-77). Down and down slipped the garter until it tumbled before the knowing eyes of a pack of smirking courtiers. But Edward III, with instant chivalry, stooped, retrieved the ribbon, tied it just below his own royal knee, and exclaimed to the Courtiers in immortal reproof: "Honi soit qui mal y pense!" (Evil be to him who evil thinks...
Soon no knightly honor was so prized as membership in the "Society of the Garter," founded by Edward III, circa 1347. Today King-Emperor George V presides over what is now the "Most Noble Order of the Garter;" and last week His Majesty appointed with great pomp three new Garter-Knights...
...program follows: I. Serenade No. 3 in D Major Mozart Allegro assai, Andante, Minuet, and Trio II. Overture "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn III. Rosita Ecalona, Soloist First Movement from the Piano Schumann Concerto in A minor Intermission I. Caresses Pantcho Wladigeroff II. Moods Joseph Akhron III. Serenade and Intermezzo Erick Korngold IV. Humoresque Max Reger V. On Youth Gustav Mahler