Word: q
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the woollier samples: Q. How do you make an elephant float? A. With two scoops of ice cream, an elephant and some root beer...
...India and British Guiana, says in Public Health Reports that the bedbug has been accused of carrying the microbes of no fewer than 30 infectious diseases: anthrax, brucellosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, leprosy, paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumococcal pneumonia, staphylococcal septicemia, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid fever, boutonneuse fever, epidemic typhus, exanthematous typhus, Q fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, epidemic jaundice (Brazzaville), sleeping sickness, encephalomyelitis, influenza, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, poliomyelitis, smallpox, yellow fever, Chagas' disease, malaria, oriental sore, mansonelliasis, onchocerciasis...
...Q. What have the following names in common? Douglas MacArthur, Pierre Mendes-France, Gina Lollobrigida. Frances Perkins, Henry Ford, Billy Graham, Casey Stengel, Jean Monnet, Walter Reuther and Marian Anderson...
...145th annual competition for the Boylston Speaking Prizes was won last night by Philip Kerr '63 and Richard J. Stillman II '65. Second place awards went to Lewis B. Kaden '63, James D. Parry '64, and Frederick Q. Rice...
...Cambridge, Homer D. Q. Tobit '64 was seen reading Kafka's The Castle in Lamont Library. At 11:24 he glanced out the window of the third level reading room. By 11:25 he had deposited his reading fare in a nearby receptacle, forgotten Humanities 119, and left the tomblike gloom of the library with the comment, "I am going to participate in the rebirth of the land...