Word: vermin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other of profiteering. How can the profiteer be hunted out? He has thrived in spite of the excess profit tax. A maximum profit law would involve no end of red tape. Bringing to account those profiteers which are on the surface would be like applying a temporary remedy to vermin instead of getting at the cause of vermin. What encourages profiteering?--disorder, uncertainty, distrust...
Each member of the group realizes that they will be exposed to far more danger than if they were fighting in the trenches, for one bite from a louse, the vermin which carries the typhus, is considered fatal. The spirit and courage of the men who have volunteered to fight this pest which is now ravaging Servia, is, as Professor Sedgwick and others have remarked, nothing short of heroic...