Word: lice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. War novels by the gross have detailed the lice, the mud, the oaths, on "Flanders Field." The present volume is distinctive in vivifying that other, more mysterious, no-man's-land east of Germany, west of Russia. But far more than this, The Case of Sergeant Grischa is a powerful indictment of autocratic statecraft, a pageant of heterogeneous border peoples, and a human document of uncanny understanding. The jocund vitality which lured Grischa to mad escape is no less vivid than his fatalistic reluctance to escape again. Insignificant "case," Grischa is the symbol that rouses the interest...
Typhus is one disease whose mode of transmission he discovered and whose way of prevention he invented. The germ breeds in the bodies of lice. One louse infects others. The community bite their human or animal host and into the bloody puncture slip the typhus organisms. Dr. Nicolle developed a vaccine from the blood of infected monkeys. Injected into humans it immunizes them. Its spreading use promises to wipe out typhus as a plague...
...that the stratum of the Republican party which has for the past eight years controlled the government is the most corrupt, the most venal and the most vicious body of men by which this nation has ever been afflicted."* At Denver it was "the snoopers and spies . . . like the lice of Egypt"-an anti-Prohibition speech (Denver being wet). The League of Nations took a lashing, too, as the Angel of Vengeance passed on to Albuquerque. Here he said: "I expect someone to say that 'Reed is merely destructive; he wants to destroy existing conditions.' Of course! Every...
...miracle belonging to Judaism and a puzzle belonging to science were reported solved last week. Manna, gift of Heaven upon which the Israelites fed on their exodus from Egypt to Canaan, was but the excretion from the bodies of certain coccids, a kind of plant lice which infested the tamarisk shrubs of the Sinai Peninsula...
...size from a pinhead to a pea. They looked closer and saw the little pills forming as yellow, sulphur-like drops on the tamarisk twigs. Other scientists, before, had noted that phenomenon and had decided that the drops oozed from tiny punctures in the bark, made by plant lice. The Hebrew University men, closer observers, saw the ooze exuding from the coccid bodies...