Word: affliction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is," Sanderson also observes, "a vague but universal presumption that wild animals in their natural environment do not suffer from diseases such as afflict ourselves and our domestic animals." Dissecting warm specimens in the jungle, instead of pickled specimens in a laboratory, he found a startling incidence of internal parasites, anatomical abnormalities (e.g., a rat with one lung), tumors, deficiency diseases, etc. He believes that it would be useful for science to undertake a wider study of the diseases of truly wild animals in order to learn the control of disease in our own world. His book shows that...
...Louisville Courier-Journal-We are an emotional people; that is why it will be difficult for us to maintain aloofness from the European tragedy... But now with... the flood of propaganda and falsehood sure to afflict us as it did prior to our entry into the World War, our aroused emotions and sympathies may sweep us off our moorings... We must keep our heads cool and preserve a strict and real neutrality. We are not likely to be able to do that by following a policy which many of us favor of professing neutrality, yet doing everything "short...