Word: malta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laboratory Dr. Edward Francis, of the U. S. Public Health Service allowed himself to be bitten by a baby California tick, promptly contracted relapsing fever, a highly dangerous disease accompanied by high temperatures, aching joints. Dr. Francis had previously infected himself with tularemia ("rabbit fevers''), undulant (malta) fever. Rocky Mountain spotted fever; advanced medical knowledge of each malady. Last week Dr. Francis was recovering again after having proved that relapsing fever is carried by California ticks, that female ticks infect their progeny before birth...
...Jerusalem stacks of freshly printed placards and pamphlets proclaiming martial law were on hand, ready in case of trouble to be posted up or dropped from British bombing planes. The battle cruiser Repulse sped from Malta to Palestine this week, her decks carrying a full flight of airplanes. Mild High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, who has governed Palestine for several years with a policy of "muddling through," was reported in Jerusalem dispatches as slated to receive a peerage and be replaced in Palestine by drastic Sir John Anderson, the efficiently ruthless sahib who, as Governor of Bengal, suppressed...
Later he moved over to Superior State Teachers' College where he created the following statistics: 41 victories, 24 losses, 6 ties. An attack of Malta fever forced him to go to Florida. After basking in the sun a few years he went back into the harness at Miami University in 1935. At Miami his boys dropped three games the first year. He finished a 1936 "suicide" schedule watching his small squad topple Bucknell and Georgetown, tie Boston U, and lose by small margins to South Carolina and Mississippi...
...recognized as such by the Press. Moreover, Papal Duchess Brady is shy, extremely apprehensive of publicity. Yet she is the foremost member of her social class in a faith which demands completely public acts of faith of its people. While her husband was living, Mrs. Brady-Dame of Malta, Dame of the Holy Sepulchre, holder of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice-founded the Carroll Club (for Catholic business girls), visited and gave money to Catholic hospitals, orphanages, homes for the aged. She succeeded Mrs. Herbert Hoover as board chairman of the Girls Scouts of America. Her husband dead...
...terms which might mean anything. The effect of these orders is to bring about 200,000 tons of British war boats into waters near Gibraltar, ostensibly "on their way" past Gibraltar steaming to distant ports. The flagship Queen Elizabeth (33,000 tons) carried Admiral Sir Alfred Dudley Pound from Malta to Gibraltar last week and is scheduled to steam back this week to Malta. The famed Hood (46,200 tons) and Repulse (37,400 tons) were already at Gibraltar and scheduled for Malta. Other British ships were bound from England, Malta and various bases through the Gibraltar Straits and officially...