Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Typhus is one disease whose mode of transmission he discovered and whose way of prevention he invented. The germ breeds in the bodies of lice. One louse infects others. The community bite their human or animal host and into the bloody puncture slip the typhus organisms. Dr. Nicolle developed a vaccine from the blood of infected monkeys. Injected into humans it immunizes them. Its spreading use promises to wipe out typhus as a plague...
...simple sentence. In 1879, Dr. Spooner announced a hymn as "The Kinquering Congs Their Titles Take." Since then, he has been labeled the author of countless spoonerisms. But, on his golden wedding celebration, he stoutly maintained that "Kinquering Congs" was his one and only spoonerism, that it was a slip of his tongue...
...preparatory or secondary school man pass entrance examinations equal in scope and demands to those of other institutions; he must, in addition, withstand the rigours involved in the securing of an appointment and the proving of himself as physically fly according to a high standard of fitness. A slip in any one of these pre-cadet requisites spells disqualification...
This is not an unreasonable conclusion in the face of the facts. The present generation of undergraduates is a self-opinionated lot, and as the years slip along into the mounting thirties, they will probably become more so. They know what they want, or think they do, and they're going to get it. They will not be led by the fashion of the moment. The bug of specialization has bit the colleges, and the average undergraduate is too firm in his own mind, or too solicitous for his own welfare to lavish time and ability on a multitude...
...rebuking this trend, Mr. Hertzog let slip an indication of his wish respecting the Duke of Gloucester, and then went on to flay Pretorian republicans, especially parsons who preach republicanism from their pulpits...