Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard last week took its place beside the U. S. Public Health Service as a victor in man's fight against typhus fever. Surgeon Rolla Eugene Dyer, U.S. P. H. S., after letting rat fleas feed on his leg, last year produced a vaccine efficacious against the mild, flea-borne typhus which occurs along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (TIME, Nov. 7, et ante). Harvard's Professor Hans Zinsser has been developing a vaccine and serum against the louse-carried, virulent type of typhus which constantly threatens to invade the U. S. from Eastern Europe and Mexico. Last...
...years the brace in the finals belonged to one owner, Andrew G. C. Sage of New York, nephew of the late great Russell Sage. One was Superlette, nine-year-old bitch, who was runner-up last year after going through the trials in a splint to save her bad leg. The other was Rapid Transit, a muscular liver & white dog who, in his semi-final heat with the pointer Mad Anthony, made eleven finds, handled perfectly, wound up the last 30 min. of the three-hour run with three fine casts, each for a fresh find...
...judges' stand. When Rapid Transit honored her perfectly without a word of advice from his handler. Clyde Morton of Alberta, Ala., the judges decided that his performance was complete. They did not bother to name a runner-up, gave him the $1,500 purse, a first leg on the R. W. Bingham Trophy, donated by the publisher of the Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal and Times...
Once the party started to map a mirage. Another time they saw marmots pair off, stand "erect on their hind legs, grasping each other with their front paws, and dance slowly about exactly as though they were waltzing." Once a car partially sank in quicksand. Another time, in an old quicksand bed they found the four legs of a baluchitherium, largest animal that ever lived. Each leg was as big around as a fat man. A speck of white in the prevailing red of the desert sufficed to indicate a partially exposed fossil. After a little practice the men spotted...
...guiding his car with one hand, firing his rifle pistol-wise with the other. During the ten years' work only two serious accidents occurred in the field. First was Dr. Andrews' shooting himself in the thigh. The other accident was a man's cutting a leg artery. At the very beginning of the work Dr. Andrews' eyes became infected. Thenceforth he has been obliged to wear glasses...