Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with when their cats began to disappear last fortnight. Even a socialite cat may stray, but when Writer Gilbert Seldes' Daisy, Lawyer Walter Richmond Herrick's Tiddles and several other pets vanished in quick succession it began to look as though there were a gatophobe in the neighborhood. Peter Herrick, 10, whose favorite pet Tiddles had been for some seven years, took to his bed with a fever, would not be comforted...
...subtle auto-pharmacals with which he dealt particularly. Histamine seems to be a generalized component of body tissues. Lung cells are richest with it, epidermal cells next richest. At every injury or irritation the insulted cells exude their histamine. The histamine dilates the blood vessels in the neighborhood and at once initiates healing. To illustrate, Sir Henry scratched his hand with a fingernail, exhibited the red weal which quickly rose...
...press photographers to the steps of Randolph Hall, where in the drizzling rain they patiently waited for the "encounter" which Lampoon editors had promised, and to which CRIMSON men had courteously been invited. After some delay, caused by the jesters' belief that there were not sufficient reporters in the neighborhood to warrant an assault, the fracas was finally commenced and carried out to everyone's satisfaction...
Other communicable diseases have shown decreases or insignificant increases. Nonetheless, health officials last week feared no measles epidemic. They consider the disease purely local. It may flare up in one neighborhood, not touch another. For example, California last week showed a 93% measles increase over the same week last year; New York increased 86%, New Jersey 435%. Other States showed correspondingly great decreases: Oregon 66%, Pennsylvania 17%, Ohio...
...most important practical applications of chemical knowledge. The common industrial processes for manufacture of coal gas, soap, rubber, paint, heavy chemicals, etc., are made clear by explanation from the industrial rather than the laboratory point of view, and a series of twelve trips to representative factories of the neighborhood gives the student an opportunity to gain first-hand ideas about how industrial large-scale operations are carried...