Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oestrogen. One of the few facts known about the polio virus is that it usually enters the body through the delicate mucous membranes of the nose. Five years ago, while studying polio epidemics in Massachusetts and Vermont, Dr. William Lloyd Aycock of Harvard noticed that polio often ran in families, even when brothers and sisters were living far apart. He suspected that children of these susceptible families might have inherited unusually thin nose linings, easily penetrated by the polio virus. So he decided to set up "virus barriers" of tough new cells in the nasal membranes of monkeys by injecting...
...Peabo") Peabody, urged him to take the job. "Jack" Crocker, like St. Paul's, is High Church, and Dr. Peabody believed he would be happy there. But Crocker turned down St. Paul's, as he had turned down nominations for the Episcopal bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week he got an invitation he did not refuse. With the obvious approval of retiring Headmaster Peabody, Groton elected High Churchman Jack Crocker to succeed Low Churchman Dr. Peabody...
...through with locomotives, he cut a hole in the wall. But "Old Ironsides" surprised him, hit 28 miles an hour on the six-mile Philadelphia-Germantown run. That was fast enough to earn immortality as a locomotive pioneer. For Old Ironsides the end came in 1857 when a Vermont landslide mummified...
Died. Ira Noel Mattison, 46, Glastenbury, Vermont's* last male inhabitant (total voters: three Mattisons), who held 14 offices, ranging from State Representative to Fire Warden, until the Legislature abolished the town government; in Glastenbury...
...Vermont's two one-family towns. The other: Somerset (controlled by 20 members of the Taylor family...