Word: moca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-dozen recent debunking farces about heroes, press-agents and high officialdom echo through Happy Landings, but several sequences-notably the one in which the 'leggers and the Moca-loca magnate get the hero to endorse Prohibition- engender good-humored laughter...
Generally speaking members of the expedition believe that the tropics can never be made more than comparatively liveable for the white man and see no prospect of his becoming adapted to life in the hot regions. The expedition's report in regard to Onchocerciasis written at Moca, Guatemala, states that "Public health procedure should include inspection of the inhabitants in the endemic districts and the diagnosis of the cases with filarial tumors with prompt removal of the fibroid growths. The operations are simple and easily performed under local novocaine anesthesia. In case of an individual refusing to be operated upon...