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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a stuffy head, running nose and red eyes took a woe-begone seat in Dr. Grafton Tyler Brown's consultation room, in Washington. Dr. Brown eyed the patient diagnostically and stated: "You have hayfever." The stuffy head snufflingly: "Yes!!" Dr. Brown scraped the man's skin and tested it with every protein he suspected might have caused the hayfever. One protein reacted positively. Stated Dr. Brown: "You have a parrot in your home." Patient snuffled: "Yes." Dr. Brown: "Get rid of the parrot." The patient did so and never after had stuffy head, running nose, red eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Parrot Fever | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Chicago thus had authority for its ditch 9 feet deep and 200 feet wide from Utica, Ill., to Grafton, Ill.-but no authority to fill it with lake water. Army officials, uninterested in sectionalism but keen for a central U. S. waterway, believed that the Secretary of War could furnish the necessary authority. That, said Ohioans and others, remains to be adjudicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicago's Ditch | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...change yourself? I want to catch the stage to Grafton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shedd | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Grafton..... Hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Again, Wales | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...Wright '26, number one on the Crimson squad was forced to five games in winning his first match from H. C. Grafton of the Union Boat Club last Thursday and will meet Arthur Cross of the Weston Club next Monday. The first member of the University quintet to take part in the competition for the state title was H. N. Rawlins '27, number three on the Crimson squad, who advanced the first two rounds of the tournament with easy wins. He will clash with G. N. Hued of the Milton Club in his next match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN ADVANCE IN STATE TITLE TILTS | 2/6/1926 | See Source »

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