Word: ox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continuing the researches of his great preceptors, Dr. Calmette with his associate C. Guérin, a veterinary surgeon, discovered that the descendants of the tuberculosis bacillus, bred for many generations in ox bile and glycerine, lost their virulency but could establish immunity in young animals against potent tuberculosis germs. In their experience the vaccine must be fed to an infant who has been exposed to the disease during its first ten days of life. Later it may be given hypodermically. It is powerless to cure, but has undoubtedly prevented tuberculosis...
...however, entail the wiping out of some air mail routes. Mr. Brown himself indicated that last week. Said he to the Washington Advertising Club: "My own judgment is that the Federal Government should concentrate its exceptional aid on a few natural transportation routes which have been traveled by ox team, pony express, railroad, automobile and airplane, because people and commodities have naturally traveled over such routes since white men came to America...
...hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish thyme, sweet marjoram; seasonings from Amberna and the Isles of Spice; carloads of ox-tails from the stockyards of Chicago...
...hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates...
...these, 200 have returned to Canada and 175 have died. Police or civil courts are considered superfluous by the Mennonites who deal with an offender simply by deciding at a religious mass meeting to boycott any brother who has seriously transgressed. Since the colony is 43 miles by ox cart from the nearest town, Puerto Casado, Paraguay, such boycotting is a most effective weapon of Justice...