Word: pane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explaining how these specimens may best be caught, the bulletin declares, "The audit winged biting mosquitoes, may be collected most, conveniently when they have some to rest upon the surface of a window pane or wall. Take a widemouthed bottle and place in it a tuft of cotton saturated with a small amount of "Carbona" cleaning fluid. Place the bottle quickly over the mosquito which will be soon overcome by the fumes. Then transfer it to a small pill box-between two layers of cotton." A pill box with several specimens may then be sent by mail without fear...
...officers and soldiers had been killed or wounded by Turkish cannon fire from a mountain six miles to the north, and where a few minutes later members of a relieving party had met the same fate. We saw the president's house, where there is not a whole pane of glass left, where the long back veranda has been blown away, and where a shell went through one of the bed-romms, but where they say "no serious damage has been done...