Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last winter Dr. John Henry McLeod of Washington bent over an eight-month-old baby who lay coughing and rattling in his crib. The baby had a bad case of flu, as he could tell for sure when he examined under the microscope slides made from the baby's tears and saliva. What he saw was swarms of vicious pneumococci and tiny, rod-shaped, bloodsucking Hemophilus influenzae, most common of the numerous organisms connected with flu. To combat the pneumococci, he gave the baby injections of the remarkable new drug sulfapyridine. Against the Hemophili he had no weapons...
Langy Burwell, a Junior who only started big-time running last winter, breezed home only nine seconds behind Haley in second place. Penn Tuttle and Gene Clark, Jaakko's veteran long distance pair, finished in third and fourth places, trailed by diminutive Dick Wing...
During a football career that dates back to the days when he played with Bobby Green, last year's Crimson grid chief, on a 130 pound team at the McDonough School in Baltimore, the versatile Senior who will captain the hockey team this winter has occupied every grid post except end and water...
...hydroxy-ethylapocupreine is derived from quinine, is usually swallowed in gelatin capsules. Of 500 pneumonia patients treated at Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital, said Chief Physician William Watt Graham MacLachlan, less than 23% died. Usual Pittsburgh pneumonia-case death rate: 45%. Before advising other physicians to lay in a winter's supply of hydroxyethylapocupreine, the cautious investigators, remembering the unqualified praise which greeted sulfanilamide, are waiting for further confirmation of the drug's efficacy...
...prelate is a greater friend of labor than Bishop Sheil. Last winter he gave the American Newspaper Guild his full support in its strike against the Chicago Hearst newspapers, and last summer he sat with John L. Lewis at a C. I. O. rally for Chicago packing workers (TIME, July 24). Bishop Sheil is 51, a year younger than was Archbishop Mundelein when he was made a Cardinal. Auxiliary bishops sometimes, but not always, succeed their superiors. Last week most Chicago Catholics hoped that this one would...