Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Eleutherios Venizelos, seven-time Premier of Greece; of influenza; in Paris...
...through the pores of unglazed porcelain. Filterable likewise, and invisible by means of the most potent microscopes yet invented, are 25 other substances which are known to cause specific diseases (infantile paralysis, common cold, mumps) and 21 substances which are presumed to cause in man scarlet fever, trachoma, encephalitis, influenza, measles, German measles, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, venereal warts...
Died. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, 86, world-renowned Russian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1904 and went on to lay the cornerstones for modern behavioristic psychology; of influenza; in Moscow. Since his efforts to weld mind & body into one delighted Russian Communists, they babied him, dutifully reported his characterization of them as "half-illiterate, rough handlers of science," gave him a beautiful laboratory, a $10,000 annuity, paraded him as often as possible to convince the world of their devotion to Science...
...flash from Washington. He knew that Secretary of the Navy Swanson had been critically ill with pleurisy all week. But the news was that the President's cousin, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, had suddenly succumbed to a heart attack during an attack of intestinal influenza. Cutting his Harvard evening short, the President and his three sons drove to the Presidential special, did some hurried telegraphing. In an hour he had word that his cousin's funeral would be held in Washington three days later, that to attend it he would have to cut short...
...most part, played third fiddle to Bill Bonthron and Cunningham, has strangely lost none of his popularity with the crowd. Bonthron, now married, has retired until the third Princeton Invitation Meet in June.* Joe Mangan, one-time Cornell miler who defeated Cunningham last month, was recovering from influenza. These two were scarcely missed as a cheering crowd watched Venzke dodge Cunningham's heels. On the last straightaway, with 40 yd. to go, Venzke unleashed a spurt, split the tape 6 ft. in front. To Cunningham went the credit of setting so fast a pace that the winner...