Word: rabbited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Railroad Administration. In March, 1921, he was appointed Director General of the railways to settle the controversies arising out of returning the roads to private ownership. Now in his 60's, bald, white fringed, quizzical, he is completing the task. For JO years he has carried a rabbit's foot...
...Francis Chelifer, a poet of no mean ability (as Mr Huxley's verses testify), vacationing in Italy from his duties as editor of The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette. One afternoon, while he had been swimming in the Tyrrhenian, the prow of Mrs. Aldwinkle's sailboat had knocked him unconscious. The lady had thereupon made him her guest and, convinced that by conveying him to the palace in her Ro-Ro? she had saved him from drowning, had fallen in love with...
...trace the transference of fear from one object to another, a rabbit was given a child and at the same time an iron bar was banged against a piece of metal. This was repeated. The child confused the noise, which he feared, with the rabbit, made the same response to both. This process of association was also used to effect cures. One baby, long under observation, was afraid of fur or anything resembling fur. The cure consisted in bringing animals into his presence while he ate., A lump of sugar was given to him and an animal brought close...
...chaps have a try.' Then, this evening we came down to the House prepared to hear and cheer all these new developments that are going to hurry up the social millenium, and Mr. Shaw described how the Government had been carrying out our scheme. . . . He lifted a rabbit out of a hat, but it was not his rabbit. The rodent which last December was the most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature that ever escaped from a lethal chamber is today lifted from the hat with ostentatious pride and self-satisfaction...
Bacterium tularense was first discovered and named by Dr. George W. McCoy of the U. S. Public Health Service in 1912, after he had isolated it from ground squirrels in Tulare County, Calif. In 1920, Dr. Edward Francis of the Public Health Service discovered that jack rabbits in the states around Great Salt Lake were infected with this disease, and that the human disease known as deer-fly fever was transmitted to man by the bite of a blood-sucking fly, which had been infected previously by biting the diseased jack rabbit...