Word: parroted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Night is built to no such outlandish specifications, but closed the book with still unsettled feelings about the author. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who started well this side of paradise, is not yet through purgatory. Though he often writes like an angel, he can still think like a parrot...
...suspected something wrong since mid-January, when McCreery's and another pet shop received dead and dying birds in shipments from California. The Department quarantined all the birds for ten days, then allowed them to be put on sale, even though it has been demonstrated that a parrot may carry the disease for 14 months. Also in January the Department sent two of the dead birds to a Public Health Service laboratory. The Service found them too badly decomposed for diagnosis...