Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they secured the most useful cultures. It was of the polymorphous streptococcus. It "looks like a microscopic chain of unmatched beads which a child has strung together." When this germ collects into minute, smooth colonies in the blood, it causes a cold or mild influenza. When the colonies become rough, the influenza grows severe, virulent. With the specific cause of influenza thus recognized, an intelligent way of treatment and a vaccine for prevention lies in purview...
...memory, saying what a good husband he had been. Emanuela was beautiful, but she was afraid of love. Against vigorous opposition, she remained a virgin. Esther married a poetaster: starvation and cold gave her tuberculosis. Bridget was a hellion of an old charwoman in downtown Manhattan. Hers was a rough tongue and none too savory a reputation, but she had courage...
...this short volume Harrison S. Morris weaves around his reminiscences of Walt Whitman a rough outline of the poet's life and a valuation of his work. It is the sort of semi-personal biographical essay that has been written so often before, and which is important, if at all, because of the new first hand information it lends to the study of this lyrist of democracy...
...team proved itself to be one of the fastest, though lightest teams here in several years in its first game of the season last Friday, when it defeated B. U. 44-24. The Crimson squad is potentially powerful, and has been well grounded on fundamentals, but there are some rough spots to be smoothed over before it can conquer M. I. T. M. E. Peirce '30 and T. I. Nido '30, who started their first game for the Crimson on Friday are again in the opening lineup...
...girl's vacillation between bawdry and respectability a very real and painful thing, and suggests that desperation might cause her to run away. Indeed, had she returned to her earlier lover, the denouement might have been more convincing than it is now, for Charles D. Brown gives him rough-cut, magnetic aspect...