Word: track
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detective methods had to be used to keep track of the four patients, all seamen. The detecting work was done by Dr. John F. Mahoney, who retired last week as medical director of the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, U.S. Marine Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y., Dr. Richard C. Arnold, his successor, and Serologist Ad Harris. For the first few months after treatment, the seamen had been kept ashore, and on call. But for almost two years of wartime service they were all over the bounding main and in many a disease-ridden liberty port...
...Robert H. Peckham, of Philadelphia's Temple University, got on the track of these findings during the war. As a Navy commander, he helped pick men for night-flying, spotting and gunnery duty. Servicemen at sea, or on sun-drenched coral islands, had to wear dark glasses in daytime if their eyes were to be any good at night...
...team scores had been kept for the informal track meet in Briggs Cage Saturday, Jaakko Mikkola's varsity squad would have won a clear victory over Boston University and Northeastern...
...Veteran Motor Car Club of America, which organizes summer meetings in New England to which members drive their old automobiles. This summer, in Teterboro, Vermont, Little won a race at one of these gatherings with his present '21 Model T. To win, he had to circle a track twice and remove a spark-plug before anyone else could do the same...
Jaakko Mikkola's varsity track squad will make its first full-dress appearance as a unit this afternoon when it meets Boston University and Northeastern in an informal meet in Briggs Cage. Field events start at 1 p.m. and running events at 3 p.m. Scores will not be kept...