Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Starting from his discoveries, doctors are experimenting with malaria to treat tuberculosis. In the Leipzig Zeitschrift fur Tuberkulose, O. Weselko writes that the treatment is lasting. The body is made able to resist the tuberculosis germs. But in the London Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, M. Freiman writes that in districts where malaria is prevalent, patients apparently free from tuberculosis, often after they had contracted malaria, suddenly showed acute signs of tuberculosis. On the other hand, consumptives with malaria grew worse and often died...
...John Burgoyne was born in London in 1722. The family was of good old stock. . . ." Gentleman Johnny, like many a brave young man of his day or of any day, spent his youth in riotous and genial diversions. A soldier but not inelegant, he wrote a letter to a lord and signed...
...unreal and picaresque; as it appears in old engravings and panoramas, a country of little, round hills, of funny irregular cities upon whose wide quiet squares a few bewildered people postured, of dark mysterious forests in which Indians trotted and yodeled and performed their gloomy dances. A citizen of London, he smiled; he watched Bunker Hill as if it had been a sham battle fought in an English park and, when Boston was blockaded, wrote a playlet that amused the inhabitants...
...Barbour is leaving the position of associate curator of the reptile and amphibian department, and has been a lecturer in zoology, and curator of the Harvard College Library. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical. Society in London, of the Royal Asiatic Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of many other foreign and American scientific societies...
...completion of the War, he was attached to the British Peace Delegation to Paris in 1919, and on his return to London after the Treaty of Versailles, became Deputy Keeper of the Department of Architecture and Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum...