Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Reed of Missouri: "Why does the Senator from Alabama want to change the old rules of the Senate if he is against changing the old rules of poker? I think we have an illustration here, not of deuces running wild, but of a very fine ace running wild...
...scourge of hot climates. When, five years ago, it swept across the southern states from Texas to Georgia, 2,000,000 cases were reported. It is always prevalent in the Philippines. Could dengue be carried by the Aedes egypti, the mosquito against whose whining depredations Dr. Walter S. Reed won his famous "yellow fever victory" a quarter of a century ago? Medical officers asked, like Dr. Reed, for volunteers; 75 soldiers sent in their names, were exposed to the mosquito, developed dengue. That was a year ago. Now, as a result of that experiment, dengue cases in the Philippines have...
...Habaña filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
...Then Dr. Reed with money furnished by Governor-General Wood -now of the Philippines-set up an isolated experimental camp in an uncultivated field a mile from the city. Attracted by the offer of $250, several peons volunteered as well as a few American youths. Buck-private John R. Kissinger unflinchingly watched the mosquitoes' hypodermics charged with fever serum pierce his arm . . . waited ... no infection . . . relief The medicos tried him again . . . waited . . . heavy sickness . . . almost death. Another lad submitted, died a martyr . . . The doctors abandoned camp. They had the proof...
...Babson '27, J. L. Brown '26, M. H. Clifford '27, W. V. Coombs '27, J. C. Dreier '28, E. W. Gantache '27, C. W. Gillies '26, R. L. Hatch '28, J. H. Lane '28, M. W. Linn '27, H. F. Murphy '27, A. E. Reed '26, Madison Sayles '27, C. O. Simpson '27, A. G. Smith '26, Joseph Sullivan '26, John Surpless '26, H. J. Wallace '28, H. H. Watchpocket '28, and D. W. Bakeless, manager...