Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis last week appeared to have established its title as the breeding spot for a special kind of sleeping sickness. This type of encephalitis first appeared four years ago at St. Louis, laid 1,000 low, killed 200 directly or by rendering them susceptible to heart failure or pneumonia. That epidemic subsided with the passing of 1933's hot weather, and there was no notable reappearance of the disease until this summer. By last week it had claimed...
...only asked to visualize three distinct divisions of what must have been a confusing accident, but we are expected to do so through the medium of a whop! etc. when the writer has already said there were "three rending crashes." Does he mean that a whop! is a particular type of crash...
Incidentally, the expression "a bold little English licensed pharmacist" scarcely fits Mr. Titterington, who is the spare type of Englishman, over six feet in height...
...berth to Senator Guffey's brother-in-law Carroll Miller. Mr. Miller, a lanky six-footer whose lantern jaw, stooped shoulders and pince-nez make him look like a schoolmaster and whose extraordinary drawl and dry wit sometimes make him sound like a Will Rogers type hayseed, hails from Richmond, Va., has spent most of his 62 years running utilities in the U. S. and Japan. Since marrying Mary Emma Guffey in 1902, he has made Pittsburgh his headquarters, is currently president of Thermatomic Corp., has a 245-acre farm at Slippery Rock...
...China Medical Board Inc. got $10,000 for further digging in the now famed caves at Chou-Kou-Tien whence came the fossil remains of "Pekin Man," generally considered by anthropologists to be the oldest human type ever discovered. C. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, got $61,200 to start and maintain for five years Canada's first university training school for prospective civil servants...