Word: mosquito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sore spot of the Conference was the mosquito problem. According to conservationists, drainage ditches of the eastern U. S. (end to end, they would belt the world at the equator three times) have dried up swamp vegetation, starved out wildlife. And all for nothing, according to Dr. Clarence Cottam, chief of the Biological Survey's division of food habits. Said he: "The millions of dollars spent on mosquito control had resulted in more U. S. mosquitoes last year than there had been in the previous ten." Some of the mosquito projects, he said, were "comparable to curing dandruff...
Most relentless Atonalist was gloomy, bald-headed Arnold Schöberg, who in his time influenced at least half the younger composers of Europe. Other eminent Atonalists, all Schöberg disciples: Anton von Webern, who wrote orchestral pieces like the slight whine of a determined mosquito; the late Alban Berg, who wrote the atrabilious opera Wozzeck; Ernest Krenek, who once relapsed so far into cheerfulness as to write an imitation jazz opera called Johnny Spielt...
...mercilessly ridiculed the ideas of his superior, Chicago's metaphysical young President Robert Maynard Hutchins, made sport of his colleagues in the Legislature by speaking in allegories, in one of which Boss Kelly figured as a rat, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Bundesen as a mosquito. When an opponent praised him for his eloquence, he retorted: "Just liquid vowels." Ambitious, he won a big radio audience outside Illinois when his 1936 Roosevelt talks proved so successful that he was put on a national network. Smith on Smith: "The Town Crier of America's Main Street"; "an ignorant...
This afternoon the Vagabond will visit the Coop--with a purpose. There he will purchase a flyswatter, mosquito netting, sticky paper, the most deadly exterminator, and the biggest Flit gun available. If that wasp or any more of the air corps drops in for a call tomorrow morning, they are going to catch a warm reception. The ground forces will be prepared...
...being released last week, the Satevepost published a searching review of the yellow-fever problem entitled Yellow Jack Breaks Jail, by Physician Victor G. Heiser. Its discouraging findings were that the enigma of yellow fever has not yet, after all, been completely solved. Theory has been that the Aedes mosquito was the only carrier, and that the virus required a human host. But exhaustive research has since proved that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is not the only carrier, and that men are not the only hosts to the yellow fever virus; that it can be harbored by many other creatures...