Word: learns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hospital was named in honor of Major Walter Reed (1851-1902), Army Surgeon, who was dispatched to Cuba in June, 1900, to learn the causes of yellow fever ("yellow jack") and whose discovery that the disease was transmitted by Stegomyia calopus (mosquito) paved the way for the slaying of that "yellow dragon" and the construction of the Panama Canal. Major Reed died of appendicitis, is buried at Arlington. To the place named for him are taken men hurt and broken in the nation's service. Wives of Army men travel thousands of miles to bear their children there, with...
...namesake, who established an alcoholic reputation upon his recent return from Panama (TIME, April 22), had driven an automobile into a truck, been arrested for driving while under the influence of narcotics, and was at large under bond. Said Senator Heflin: "I am deeply pained . . . to learn that my son has been drinking again. . . . My enemies who are willing to exploit my son in the newspapers . . . will yet see him resist the temptations . . . and be what his mother prayed he would be and what I expect him to be - a fine and useful man to his day and generation." Said...
...particularly exciting discovery? two "Bushman paintings" on rock, one on top of the other. Beneath was a well-dressed Arab. Above was a Bushman ferociously warring with Bantus. It was the first example of superimposed art to be found in Rhodesia. It promised under analysis to help historians to learn what races have crossed Rhodesia and when...
...Morton, for social reasons, did not care to acquire the island by living on it for three years. So she had to learn about, and collect, Valentine scrip...
...rangy cadets of St. John's Military Academy at Delafield, Wis., are very, very good boys this summer, apart from their religious duties of attending evensong five times a week and chapel on Sundays, they will learn quite a lot about fly-and bait-casting. For last week that famed itinerant casting-expert "Smiling Bill" Vogt said definitely that during July & August he would show St. John's cadets how he works. He has signed a performance contract with Col. Roy Felton Farrand, St. John's graduate and president.* "Smiling Bill" Vogt is a hulky six-footer...