Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Garlic and Tuberculosis. Far more serious than tick fever was bovine tuber culosis. For years it had plagued farmers, killing their cattle. Worse yet, tuberculosis germs were transmitted to humans through cows' milk. The year he became bureau chief (1917) John Mohler swung out against bovine tuberculosis. There was...
Lafcadio Hearn was the subject of a lively controversy in New Orleans. The papers were full of shocked, incredulous, hat-tearing letters to the editor. Once a New Orleans Jack-of-all-journalism, the late Lafcadio, master of delicate lyrical prose, had won his greatest fame as a writer on...
The "hunter" pulls a trigger, releases a high-pressure charge which saturates the air of tent, hut, or dugout with a quick insect-killing mixture of sesame oil and extract of pyrethrum flowers, vaporized by Freon. Aerosol, says the Army, tracks down mosquitoes to the last, remote fold of clothing...
It will be just dandy if the Japs persist in their battle technique demonstrated at Attu Island (TIME, July 5), viz. killing themselves rather than surrendering.
Outside the Party there was a quickening. As a great wave passes beneath a ship, the news surged under Festung Europa. To millions of plain people it seemed to foreshadow an end to killing and to hunger.