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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Filariasis rarely kills the victim directly. The St. Kitt's deaths were due to superimposed infections. No drug is known which will rid the infected human of the worms or their larvae. All that Dr. Pawan could recommend on St. Kitt's was that the inhabitants prevent mosquitoes, the intermediate hosts of infection, from breeding (by filling or oiling stagnant puddles and pools) and that they screen themselves from bites...
...distribution, handling all repacking, marking, routing, and import requirements that arise en route. It will "provide adequate and reliable information regarding foreign markets and conditions" to its customers. By assuming responsibility for the shipment while en route, Bush Service will be able to give the exporter what is known as "a continuous document of possession," so that he can borrow money on his goods while they are in transit. At present such goods are a frozen asset while in transit. A middle-west manufacturer can put goods for export on a railroad train and forget about them until he receives...
...operatic subject.* Da Ponte was busy at the time with commissions from Emperor Joseph II, but working furiously, inspired by snuff, Tokay and his landlady's 16-year-old daughter, he wrote the libretto for which Mozart, writing notes with the same prodigality, composed the music of the opera known as Don Giovanni...
...fond of pets and had not been married long when we decided that we must have a cat and, of course, the best cats hail from our native state. Accordingly, to Vermont we sent for a cat. A tiny tiger kitten arrived not long after we made our desires known. . . . When we took him out of the box . . . the little thing was so sleepy and tired from long hours . . . on the train that he toppled over drowsily and went to sleep at once." The kitten was named Bounder. He enjoyed playing with water (was apt to jump into tubs drawn...
...amazingly lean, dignified, taciturn gentleman appeared to help the girl. He was Sherlock Holmes, detective. A fantastic seer, he had but to scan the unevenlv shaven cheeks of his friend Dr. Watson to tell him that he had altered the position of his dressing table. Scarcely had he known one lady for five minutes when he announced in his croaking voice that she was obviously fond of Chopin. What criminal could have hoped to elude such a prodigy of penetration, such an immaculate and urbane nemesis...