Word: fever
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...scattered sections of the country interest is undoubtedly at fever heat, but due entirely to local conditions. Ohio, for instance, is excited because it claims both candidates. Indiana is agog over the hottest senatorial election in its history. Illinois has a factional war of unusual bitterness. But here in Massachusetts not half so much interest attaches to this campaign as to that a year ago, when the law and order issue which Governor Coolidge brought to the surface in the police strike resulted in the casting of half a million votes. The Bay State apathy may be due almost entirely...
...Theobald Smith was the first one to prove that an infectious disease can be transmitted by an insect. After working with Texas fever, a disease of cattle resembling malaria, he demonstrated that this infection is transmitted from one animal to the next by means of a tick. This discovery, made in 1893, opened up the entire field of insect-borne diseases and soon afterwards Ross discovered that human malaria is transmitted by the mosquito, and Reed, Carrol, and the Army Medical Commission demonstrated that yellow fever is transmitted also by a mosquito. Since then it has been shown that plaque...
...tempora, O mores!" The good old Gold Coast bath become a concert hall; and while the Seniors in the Yard with merely a seven o'clock bell lie sleeping with blissful dreams, nearer the fever the less fortunate Juniors and Sophomores toss restlessly between the sheets and softly curse...
...Spring fever has had a disastrous effect on the students at a certain Kansas normal school. Quite in accordance with the old adage about the cat and the mice, the embryo teachers, while their headmaster was away from home for a few days, celebrated their little vacation by playfully tossing a couple of faculty members into the campus lake because, forsooth, they would not be forced into laying planks for a board running track...
...Cuban Government upon a secure and independent footing; in short to preserve for all time the fruits of the victory of 1898. With the eyes of the whole world watching the experiment of the United States, he made a brilliant success. Transportation, schools, justice, government, and above all yellow fever had to be dealt with in a manner demanding of the governor the highest qualities of judgment character and action. The foresight and courage with which he supported the experiments of the medical men for the extirpation of yellow fever, of far reaching importance in the history of Cuba...