Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baseball, unlike most modern day sports, has remained fundamentally unchanged in design and spirit since its genesis in the middle of the 19th century. The invention of the game is attributed in folklore to Abner Doubleday. Besides founding the national sport, Gen. Doubleday--after graduating from West Point--was present at Fort Sumter, where as an artillery captain he sighted the first cannon fired by the Union in the Civil...
...American mind has now acquired an entirely new set of symbols: the boat people fleeing and drowning, former South Vietnamese soldiers in re-education camps ringed with barbed wire, Pol Pot's murderous regime in Cambodia. When the French were colonizing Indochina in the middle of the 19th century, the Vietnamese were just in the process of conquering Cambodia. Now they have invaded again, and have subordinated Laos as well, advancing that much closer to a possible Vietnamese elevation to the status of overlord. Their move against Cambodia spurred the Chinese, who supported Hanoi through the long American...
...disease evokes images of pale, suffering poets like Keats and Shelley or wanly beautiful heroines like La Boheme 's Mimi and Camille wasting away in the arms of their lovers. Indeed, during the 19th century, tuberculosis-or consumption, as it was then called-exacted a horrifying toll; up to 20% of the population in Western countries died of it before the age of 50. But by 1882, when the German bacteriologist Robert Koch demystified the disease by identifying the tiny rod-shaped tubercle bacillus that caused it, the tide was turning...
Unlike their 19th century predecessors, today's doctors rarely see the disease; medical schools do not stress it. A 1977 study at Scott Air Force Base revealed that of 130 patients referred there for TB, 73 had been misdiagnosed or given inadequate therapy by their original physician...
...libraries and the art of library science, Bryant has transformed this philosophy into actions. He has sat on myriads of library, book and academic commissions. For ten years, for example, Bryant chaired the National Committee on the Preservation of Books. "Practically any book printed since the mid-19th century is on paper which is deteriorating at some rate," he sighs. "The libraries of this country face the enormous problem of preserving man's intellectual memory." Bryant is not used to dealing with problems on a small scale. He designed, engineered and oversaw the massive switch of the library's catalogues...