Word: rods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, diphtheria, highly infectious disease, affects the throat. Germs, rod-shaped, breed there and give off toxins which cause the peculiar fever. Antitoxins can allay the fever. They are made by the blood of horses which have been methodically infected with diphtheria toxin. Such antitoxins constitute one of the few remedies which have a specific effect in treating disease. Without their injection the throat of a diphtheric child (most victims are from two to ten years of age) is apt to close up through the rapid forming of a false membrane across the air passage...
Story: ". . . Four bandits were guarding me. Their rifles lay across their knees. It was night. I pretended to be asleep. They began to doze. I waited until they were sound asleep. Then I got up with a piece of steel rod in one hand and a broken bottle in the other. I brained the first man near me, slashed the throat of the second one with the broken bottle and laid about with the steel rod. My aim was good. I stretched the other two out and then slit their throats. . . . After that I did a dash for the underbrush...
...small black box rested on a stand. From its top projected a metal rod approximately twelve inches high; from its side projected a horizontal metal ring. Before the box stood a thin, blond Russian, Professor Leo Theremin of State Physical Institute of Leningrad. He placed his right hand near the upright rod; a musical note streamed from the box. He wiggled his right fingers; chords and phrases danced from the box. He moved his left hand towards the horizontal ring; the music roared deeply. He removed his left hand; the music whispered forth...
...have followed a cold trail to a mare's nest. There is a wide gulf between what is acceptable to journalism and what is recorded by history. And the identity of this episode, no matter which way it turns, cannot help but prove again that verification is the divining rod...
...fairgrounds were to be found exhibits of tickets, travel-folders, timetables, trunks, baggage, Pullman cai's, Pullman-car china, antique wooden rails, tiny reproductions of modern electric engines; collections of new and old railroad watches, telegraph instruments, telephones, canal boats, pictures of locomotives. Also a rickety-looking rod, the predecessor and progenitor of telegraph poles...