Word: parrot
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...breakbone" fever,* parrot fever. During one study he contracted breakbone fever, during another parrot fever. The parrot fever attack made him particularly useful to the wife of Senator William Edgar Borah when she contracted that disease. Serum from Dr. Armstrong's immune blood cured her. Dr. Armstrong's current assignment is last year's epidemic of sleeping sickness in St. Louis (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933, et ante). Last week he was working on the serology of the strangest of the St. Louis sleeping sickness cases when, too ill to continue, he went to the Naval Hospital...
...becomes apparent that a revolution is taking place in Harvard's class-room methods when lecture halls are no longer to be kept filled by the ministrations of a monitor and the shadow of a "parrot" examination. It is an interesting sign that the young government instructors, all of them tutors, who have volunteered the new series of lectures, regard the series as a valuable experiment in the technique of presentation. Harvard is to be treated to a view of what spirited informal and purely extra-curricular lectures can accomplish in the way of presenting information. At least so much...
...work done in section meetings is often interpreted by both the leader and the student to mean that an A will be given the man who takes the most active part in the discussion. It is, however, almost a rule that the better men will not bother to speak parrot-like what they have read during the week because they are bored and realize that the other members of the section should have read the same thing. On the other hand, a poor man will not expose his difficulties because his misunderstanding will probably be the cause of a lower...
...melodramatic formula. In his story, a neat blend of hexerei, psittacosis and the primal appetites, Pennsylvania Dutch dialect throws into ironic relief an increasingly sinister plot. Herman Bauer, good farmer and good husband, coveted his neighbor's land. But if Neighbor Erdman had not come down with parrot fever, which looked like hexerei, if Herman had not found his mother's little hexing book, he might not have gone on to covet Erdman's wife as well. Imagining himself at last a full-fledged hexer, Herman went deviously ahead to get the things he wanted. With Erdman...
...wise travelers fortify themselves against typhoid, so in future purchasers of parrots, parakeets, lovebirds, macaws, may guard against psittacosis (parrot fever). At Yale Medical School last week Dr. Thomas Milton Rivers of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute announced development of a psittacosis vaccine, prepared from the sputum of recovered psittacosis patients. White mice, monkeys and finally seven of Dr. Rivers' laboratory assistants were vaccinated, proved immune to the disease...