Word: zinsser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward B. Hubbard, of Wellesley Farms, has been appointed sub-chairman of the Photographic Board, which is headed by Hans H. Zinsser; William J. Clothier, 2nd, of Valley Forge, Pa., and Philip T. Shahan, of Clayton, Mo., of the Editorial Board, which is headed by James H. Alexandre, III; Clarence D. Martin, Jr., of Olympia, Washington, and Edwin K. Bennett, of Queens Village, N. Y., of the Business Board, under Albert Damon; and John H. McCormick, of Dorchester, of the Art Board, under Edward L. Barnes...
Epee: John Ashmead, Jr. (H) defeated Steele (B), 2-1; Albert E. Weiner (H) defeated Steele (B), 2-1; Hans H. Zinsser (H) defeated Mayer (B), 2-0; John L. Daniels (H) defeated Mayer...
Most historians consider typhus one of the oldest of human scourges, running back even beyond the Golden Age of Greece. Dr. Zinsser does not agree with them. According to his thesis, the disease developed among wild rats in the Orient, did not reach Europe as a human epidemic until the 15th Century. In the five subsequent centuries. Professor Zinsser calculates that typhus has caused more death and misery than cholera, bubonic plague, leprosy, tuberculosis, or any other human pestilence. Therefore he rates this mass disease as Plague No. 1, born in filth and spread by vermin...
...Zinsser describes the disease as follows...
...typhus is mild it probably is due to the bite of a rat-flea. In human blood rat-typhus virus may be transformed, by ways which bacteriologists have not discovered, into human-typhus virus which in turn is transmitted by lice in a much more virulent form. Professor Zinsser two years ago invented a vaccine to prevent human typhus (TIME, March 13, 1933). Before that, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service invented a vaccine to protect humans against rat typhus (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). Though the mortality rate of typhus under normal circumstances...