Word: santo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound class-Myers (MIT) pinned Tuleja (H) at 2:35, 128-Loe (II) pinned Taub (MIT) at 4:31; 136-Iben (H) planned Schmidt (MIT) at 4:14; 145-Adam(H)Pinned Lecar (MIT) at 1:40; 155-Santo-Buch (H)decisioned Ebeling (MIT), 6-2; 165-Mogan (MIT) pinned Clark (H) at 5:14; 175-Brown (H) and Landy (MIT)drew, 1-1; unlimited-Seymour (MIT) pinned Davis...
...them cruelly. Major Hornbostel, an ex-Marine officer who had been commissioned by the Army when war broke out, had fought on Bataan, had endured the infamous Death March and spent years in prison. Gertrude had spent three years as a prisoner in Manila amid the dreary terrors of Santo Tomas...
...managed parliaments. I was about to say that I did not know of a single case where this is so, but I am mistaken. There is a small country in the Antilles, a small, unfortunate country in which the President re-elects himself time after time-the republic of Santo Domingo. Its national parliament is presided over by the photograph of Dictator General Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo." Cries of "May bien, muy bien" and loud applause rang through the chamber...
Last November a farmer was brought into Panama City's modern Santo Tomas hospital with a high fever. Next day he died. Another man running a terrific fever was admitted to the hospital; he died within 48 hours. A fortnight later a farmer reached the hospital spewing vomito negro-once a recognized sign of yellow jack. He also died, and within a month two more men died the same...
Like most present-day doctors in Panama, Santo Tomás' Chief Pathologist José Miguel Herrera had never seen a yellow fever victim. Gorgas, Walter Reed and other early workers in Cuba and Panama had seen to that (see cut). But after performing an autopsy on the last man to die, he thought of yellow jack. He checked, found that all five dead were jungle farmers from an area 35 miles east of Panama City. He sent part of the last man's liver to Washington. Last week the Pan American Sanitary Bureau made it official...