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...specific virus. This was ascertained during the 1933 epidemic by one of the most vigorous and concentrated attacks on a disease ever made by Medicine. Immediate discoverers of that virus were Dr. McCordock; Dr. Charles Armstrong, virus expert of the U. S. Public Health Service; Dr. Leslie Tillotson Webster of Rockefeller Institute; Dr. Ralph Stewart Muckenfuss, then of St. Louis, now director of New York .City's famed Bureau of Laboratories...
...higher authority on pronunciation, Webster's New International Dictionary, rules on culture: kultur, the second u as in unite...
Reader Knowlton may now hear of a fourth definition of barratry, given in the Webster International and Oxford dictionaries: The "practice of exciting and encouraging or maintaining lawsuits or quarrels; persistent excitement of litigation...
Chris G. Petrow, Webster City, Iowa--Lincoln High School, Webster City...
...Princeton last week Oxford-Cambridge showed supremacy in the field as well. In the high jump and shot put Cambridge's Robert Kirk Inches Kennedy and Ali Irfan of Istanbul set new meet records. And Cambridge's Webster topped Princeton's Standish Medina, suffering from a pulled leg muscle, with a 13-ft. pole-vault. Though President Pennington took the 100 and 220-yd. sprints handily and President Brown breezed to victory in the quarter mile, these three victories in the field > proved invaluable when Princeton-Cornell proceeded to win both the mile and two-mile runs...