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Among the diseases conquered by sulfanilamide are puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), gonorrhea, meningitis, and streptococcus sore throat. Last week in The Lancet Dr. Sidney Campbell Dyke, consulting pathologist at the Royal Hospital at Wolverhampton, and his assistant, Dr. G. C. K. Reid, reported that tablets of a new sulfanilamide compound, M. & B. 693, short for 2-(para-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine, had brought about a "speedy recovery" in eight cases of lobar pneumonia...
...Bessie goes back to the days of urban growth and legislation compelling school attendance, that is, to the days that followed the Civil War, and sets the stage for yellow journalism by quoting Whitelaw Reid as saying in 1879: "There is not a newspaper editor in New York who does not know the fortune awaiting the man who is willing to make a daily paper as disreputable and vile as 150,000 readers would be willing to buy." Hence the "New York World," which Mr. Pulitzer founded "because I want to talk to a nation, not a select committee...
...October 6, 1909, exactly 29 years ago, the House was formally delivered to the University by the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, William Whitelaw Reid, and it was a remarkable coincidence that the same day and almost the same hour, A. Lawrence Lowell '77, was installed as president in Memorial Hall, some 3000 miles away. While our ambassador was paying honor to John Harvard at Stratford, the British ambassador was paying his respects to the University at President Lowell's inaugural ceremonies...
...Named after its British designer, Reid Railton, who also designed Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird, first car ever to travel 300 m.p.h. and holder of the world's record before Captain Eyston's Thunderbolt. Last week Sir Malcolm broke his own world's record for speed on water by driving his motorboat Bluebird 130 m.p.h. on Lake Hallwil, Switzerland...
...broke out when subtitles were too long. The fun lasted until the operator switched on the lights and bawled: "Shut up, you brats, or I'll throw you all out." Ruth and Eileen never lost their love for it. In Cleveland, they sat through Theda Bara and Wally Reid pictures, holding their hats before their eyes at the sad parts, weeping copiously. They were getting to be big girls, having their teeth straightened, when Rudolph Valentino appeared to pale all previous movie experiences...