Word: tickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor sank back into the cushions of the taxi and wished the meter wouldn't tick so often. In Detroit you can make a bargain with the chauffeur, but New Englanders have no sense of humor when it comes to money. Beacon Street is so far away. But damn the expense, there is always a wastebasket for regular bills. And tonight, tonight would be worth a King's Ransom...
...Public Health Service scientists whom Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming brought to Manhattan last week to lecture before the New York Electrical Society's science forum. The others: flea-bitten Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer, discoverer of the cause of typhus fever in the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 7); tick-bitten Dr. Roscoe Roy ("Spenny") Spencer, who invented a new kind of vaccine (macerated insects which carry the virus of disease) and tried it out first on himself; Dr. Carl Voegtlin, pharmacologist, who has accumulated so many facts about the chemistry of cell growth that last week he dared...
...committee is Appropriations and two other Democrats (Carter Glass and Kenneth McKellar) are in line ahead of him for the chair should the Senate go Democratic. On the Commerce Committee three Democrats. all his juniors, outrank him. At the last session his principal activity was government aid for cattle tick eradication and a merchant marine school at New Orleans...
...actual running of the Kentucky Derby, over a mile-and-a-quarter of chocolate-colored loam at Churchill Downs, takes a few seconds more than two minutes. As the horses paraded to the post last week, Crystal Prince shied at the loud band playing "Swanee River." Cee Tee and Tick On made trouble at the barrier. Cee Tee was placed outside and when the barrier finally sprang after 15½ min., Tick On was pocketed behind the field. It took Fator on Brother Joe about a half-mile to find that he had picked the wrong horse. Brother Joe pulled...
...reputation of being impossible to catch when his horse is leading in the stretch. Jockey Horn on Economic and Jockey Ensor, coming up fast with Stepenfetchit, found him impossible to catch last week. Burgoo King was first by five lengths at the finish, with Economic second, Stepenfetchit third, Tick On sixth...