Word: mosquito
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer, to establish the Montreal Star. Cancer is the great enigma of medical science. Many of the most dreaded diseases have been brought under control or greatly mitigated-smallpox with vaccine, typhoid fever with chlorination, diphtheria with antitoxin, tuberculosis with an all-round hygienic program, yellow fever with mosquito control, leprosy with chaulmoogra oil, diabetes with insulin. But cancer goes marching on with no apparent check. Indeed, the cancer death rate in the registration area of the United States has risen gradually but steadily until in 1921 it was 86 per 100,000 population, which would indicate that there...
Professor G. C. Whipple will lecture on "Mosquito Control" at a meeting of the Engineering Society this evening in Pierce Hall at 8 o'clock. He will speak in particular about disease-carrying mosquitos and the methods by which they may be successfully combatted. Moving pictures will illustrate his points...
...National Cotton Conference for Boll Weevil Control that inasmuch as insects are guided by smell, it might be possible to destroy the boll weevil by baiting traps with the scent of the female. If the method could be developed it might be made effective against the house fly, mosquito, ant, and other pests...
...efforts of all latter-day Adams have similarly met with failure. Ganquin departed for the woods and became infamous. "Joe" Knowles, of recent fame,--he who wrote a vivid description of tackling a passing deer that would have turned Munchausen a sickly green,--returned, mosquito bitten, to get his salary from the newspaper which financed him. Thoreau, who was Adanilo only in living close to nature, not venturing reproduction of the original, found himself in bitter and extended conflict with the town authorities of Concord for not paying his taxes. All in all, from start to finish, it appears that...
...Shinier in Sanitary Engineering: Mr. E. R. Clarkson on "The mosquito and Malaria Problem in Arkansas Pierce...