Word: spider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breath-taking remedies for every dis-:ase abounded in Britain a couple of centuries ago. Part of the cure for consumption was to catch the tops of nine waves in a dish, then dump the contents on the head of the patient. Asthma could be dispatched by rolling spider webs into a ball and then swallowing them; epilepsy was dealt with by driving a nail into the spot where the sufferer had fallen. Nine lice eaten with a piece of bread & butter cured jaundice, and a poultice of sheep's dung cleared up erysipelas in no time...
...investigation into Chairman David Lilienthal's two-year stewardship of the Atomic Energy Commission had all the familiar trappings of a congressional hazing. But the act was getting out of hand. Baking in the floodlights that shone for the spider-legged newsreel and television cameras, Iowa's schoolmasterish Senator Bourke Hickenlooper suddenly began to look more like the defendant than the prosecutor...
...Yardlings made it 5 to 5 in the eighth, as shortstop Henry Young singled Charlie Cabet, pinch hitting, pepped to second baseman McHugh who dropped the ball and then erased Young at second. Switzer get an infield safety, and Hill Goodman, running for Spider Webb who had run for Cabet, fallied on a wild pitch...
Freshman baseball players hit like the 1927 Yankees yesterday, scored 22 runs on 20 hits, eight walks, and eight golen bases, while their pitcher, Spider Webb, gave Leicester Junior College one hit, one walk...
...Spider Webb will try to snap his curve over the plate and the freshman baseball team over its losing ways when Leicester Junior College arrives at Soldiers Field at 3:45 p.m. this afternoon...