Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...juxtaposition of your very interesting article on President E. A. Alderman of the University of Virginia and the list of "famed" personages given honorary degrees by other institutions of learning (TIME, June 18) is a striking coincidence. In an article in The American Mercury last winter, the statement was made that the Secretary of Commerce had received an LL. D. from the University of Virginia. In response to a request for verification of this statement, I received the following letter from President Alderman...
...milk may become infected by human hands, or, what seems more logical in view of the widespread character of the epidemics,* the udder of the cow becomes infected from human hands, releasing a stream of contagion at every milking time. Most of the epidemics have occurred during the winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout the community, accompanied by chilliness, headache, muscular soreness, nausea, vomiting. The glands of the throat swell up; complications as peritonitis, pneumonia, arthritis are not rare. The abrupt violence of the illness gives little scope for serum...
...seed is planted on a thin slice of cork floating in the solution; the floats are kept damp until tiny rootlets come crawling down into the water, when the plant can take care of itself. Six foot sweet peas, tall dahlias fed on food pills have bloomed profusely in winter at room temperatures...
Every nation wants for itself the glory of making and breaking records. Italy is no exception. Vexed because major aeronautical records were scarce in Italy, because the Schneider Cup race had been lost to England, Dictator Mussolini last winter ordered civil aviators to concentrate on the problem of record-gathering. Obligingly, three faithful Fascists chalked up three new records in a little more than three months...
Warring companies, like warring nations, proclaim slogans, announce positions from which they will never, never recede. Last winter, when the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co. (60% Dutch, 40% British) declared war on the Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., both contestants stated their cases promptly and publicly. For Dutch Shell, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding shouted "stolen oil" across the ocean to N. Y. The retort was immediate: "The Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. . . . will carry out all contracts into which it has entered, and will not be swerved ... by desperate and destructive measures...