Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herr Hitler (through Dr. Dietrich) tried again one of his offside diplomatic plays. If the U. S. would only tell Britain it would not support her in a war unless she first tried to settle the issues at a conference table, the war would be ended. Dr. Dietrich felt sure that Herr Hitler would delay giving the command to start firing on a big scale until President Roosevelt could indicate his willingness to mediate. Otherwise, said Dr. Dietrich, there would ensue the "most gruesome blood bath in history." In Washington President Roosevelt let it be known that he would...
...Emil Mannerheim, 72, now National Defense Council President, who remained quietly at Helsinki. In the sporadic fighting between the Finnish Army and the Red Army in the months just after the Russian Revolution Baron Mannerheim "saved Finland," and for a time he was Regent when it was not yet sure that the country would become a Republic. In the 19th Century Finland was a Grand Duchy with the Tsar of Russia as its Grand Duke, and as a young man Baron Mannerheim fought as a Tsarist officer in the Russo-Japanese war, later was a member of Tsar Nicholas...
...last winter Dr. John Henry McLeod of Washington bent over an eight-month-old baby who lay coughing and rattling in his crib. The baby had a bad case of flu, as he could tell for sure when he examined under the microscope slides made from the baby's tears and saliva. What he saw was swarms of vicious pneumococci and tiny, rod-shaped, bloodsucking Hemophilus influenzae, most common of the numerous organisms connected with flu. To combat the pneumococci, he gave the baby injections of the remarkable new drug sulfapyridine. Against the Hemophili he had no weapons...
...dying, "showed marked improvement . . . within 24 hours," and in a few days the sulfapyridine conquered flu germs as well as pneumococci. Happy Dr. McLeod passed the glad news on to the U. S. Public Health Service, and Bacteriologist Margaret Pittman set to work in her laboratory to make sure his lucky hit was indeed...
Once or twice during the next few weeks she raised her lids, but her eyes were blank. Frantically Mrs. Yarrington shook her, called to her, but Maxine slept on. She had Encephalitis Lethargica, probably caused by a filtrable virus, a type of sleeping sickness for which medicine knows no sure cure...