Word: lees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Septic Sore Throat. In ten days, an epidemic of septic sore throat has killed 26 people in Lee, Mass. Of the remaining 4,000 population, more than 400 lay in fevered agony, last week, unable to swallow; their glands hard and swollen; their heads hammering with constant pain. Doctors, nurses, supplies were rushed to Lee...
...source of the epidemic was traced to the principal milk dealer. Two of his men who handled the milk were found with sore throats from which Streptococcus hemolyticus was isolated. The guilty microbes were also found in the udder of a cow now excluded from the herd. All Lee milk is being rigidly pasteurized; all milk products made before or during the epidemic (butter, cheese, ice-cream) are prohibited...
Other Californians who qualified are Lee Barnes in the pole vault, Robert King in the high jump, Clarence Houser in the discus throw, Levi Casey in the hop, step and jump...
...painters decry this inattention; some will even admit that in this day their art has become a weak one, fostered by artificial and injurious enthusiasms. Precisely why should it be less fun to look at paintings than to read books is a question for which there are many answers. Lee Simonson, able editor of Creative Art, suggested one last week. He wrote: "The modernity of the painter today reveals itself just as much in what he paints as the way he paints it. That change can be summarized by saying, that formerly the subject of a picture was a text...
...denied one of the clemency pleas, granted the other pleader a reprieve. Accordingly, one Wilmot LeRoy Wagner was electrocuted at Sing Sing for killing two State Troopers who tried to arrest him in Caneadea, N. Y., last summer; and one Ludwig Halverson Lee, convicted of killing and dismembering two women, was told he might live until July...