Word: typhus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curative measures include government distribution of quinine, establishment of hospitals, and special steps for the cure of tuberculosis, typhus, syphilis, cholera, and other pestiferous infections...
...still the most graphic and authentic picture of the revolution, as "Ten Days That Shook the World." When Reed went to Moscow in 1920 in disguise (being under indictment as one of the founders of the American Communist Labor Party), Louise Bryant followed him. Reed was stricken with typhus "at his revolutionary post" and died in October, 1921, in his wife's arms...
...instrument of capitalistic tyranny, Joyce calls him a traitor and leaves him in disgust. The disgust is largely mutual. Bertram goes on a tour through Europe-representing a liberal weekly-and the plot stands still for a good many pages of observation. Further developments are an attack of typhus for Bertram, the convenient death of the man whom Joyce had come to love and he to hate, and a sweetly satisfactory ending. Joyce comes back to him, unwarrantably penitent, and they start off on a thoroughly unlikely new life. The Significance. The real hero is not Pollard...
...drove on past the college to the hospital on the edge of the city, and put up there with Dr. Shepard is the son of the famous "Shepard of Aintab," who died here of typhus in 1915 to take his father's place. he has been in the city all through the fighting. He has counselled and helped besieged Armenians, has tried to make peace between Armenians and Turks, and has received French and Armenian, and now Turkish wounded to the American, hospital, of which he is the head. He is just back from a trip to Beirut, where...
...college has been closed, so far as college work is concerned, since 1915, when the Armenians were deported from Aintab. Several of the teachers were sent into exile, where some of them, died of typhus or were murdered. Three were sent to courtmartial on trumped-up charges, but were finally acquitted--a miracle in Turkey. Several are still living, and are in Turkey or abroad, waiting for the college to re-open. About one-third of the students died during the war. Over fifty of the alumni were murdered or died of disease due to war conditions. More than forty...