Word: germ
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Appearing with his captive before Magistrate Charles Solomon. Milli explained how it was done: the ingenious and germ-defying young man, who said that he was Chester Madzenski, dropped a squashed penny into the slot; it stuck there, instead of falling into the coin box. Subsequent nickels piled up on top of it. Madzenski apparently had it figured out that when three nickels had been dropped on top of his penny, the last one would be near enough to the top so that he could suck...
Last week the National Tuberculosis Association took a cue from Walt Disney, released the first animated cartoon on public health. The picture, which combines photographs with drawings, is called "Goodbye, Mr. Germ." It tells the adventures of "Tee Bee," who swims around from lung to lung, raising an enormous family, and drilling through lung-pipes. The germ, who wears a top hat and cackles like The Shadow, finally gets trapped in a sanatorium. Message: watch out for lingering coughs, get tuberculin tests and X-rays...
Some of the high-magnification details of disease germs are too new to be of anything more than academic interest. But eventually, if science follows its historic course, they will be put to use. Probably scientists will soon make visible the viruses, mysterious disease agents small enough to pass through porcelain filters.* They may uncover the genes (unit heredity carriers) in their hiding places along the chromosomes of germ cells. By ultra-high magnifications of cancerous cells, they may shed the ultimate light on the cause of malignant tumors...
...dollars every year. Last week Dr. Charles Conger Palmer of the University of Delaware said that he had found a new kind of streptococcus, never described before, in the udders of heifers with mastitis. Sometimes it flourishes alone, at other times it grows along with Staphylococcus aureus, the germ which causes one form of mastitis in cows, boils and pimples in man. Dr. Palmer and his associates are now trying to discover whether it also infects human beings...
Actually, Gehrig never was "felled" by the polio germ. His ailment, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (TIME, March 25), is something quite different, is not communicable. The New York Yankees hurriedly disproved "Doctor" Powers' quack diagnosis by winning six games in a row and moving up to third place in the American League pennant race-only six games behind the league-leading Cleveland Indians. Lou Gehrig's rebuttal was more direct. Saying that he is now "a pariah whom many people shun," honest, earnest Lou Gehrig, who has been practically canonized since retiring from baseball last summer, last week brought...