Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white mice were inoculated with Floyd Bennett's sputum. Just before midnight the results of the inoculation were published. The bulletin read: "The type of pneumonia from which Bennett is suffering has been disclosed by the inoculation of mice as type III." A simple statement, but it meant the sera were useless, the flight was in vain, the breaks were against Bennett...
...necessary to send the serum from New York, by airplane. Pneumonia is not a simple, single disease. Originally the term "pneumonia" meant any disease characterized by high fever and inflammation of the parenchyma of the lungs. The vast number of causes-colds, bronchitis, influenza, typhoid fever, measles, fatigue, exposure-indicates its complexity. During the War men died of pneumonia after inhaling poison gases...
During those fretful days when two Germans and an Irishman bent over maps in the mess hall of Baldonnel Airdrome, little did they reck the possible consequences of their flight. Theirs at that moment must have been a single-tracked mind. They meant to fly from Dublin to New York; they were taking all the risks, facing the supreme danger with shining faces. They asked no man to do what they were doing...
...greatest danger which faces Rotary today is that we Rotarians, so smug and secure economically, feel that by simply belonging to the Rotary Club, we are discharging our obligations. Rotary was never meant to be a smoke screen behind which we could hide from our civic duties. . . . Adulation for the word 'service' has become almost nauseating. . . ." This brief brave speech was made in Asbury Park, N. J., by the second vice president of Rotary International, whose name is Leonard T. Skeggs. The president of Rotary International is Arthur H. Sapp...
...foxes seen" said the cryptic message received from Capt. Wilkins by Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society. It meant there was no land between Point Barrow and Spitzbergen and put an end to the fond dream of a vast continent in the "blind spot" of the Arctic...