Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since influenza seems to be a regular aftermath of war, U.S. health officers have been on the lookout for an epidemic. Last week they were pleased to note that so far flu had been unusually hard to find. The season's total to date-26,977 cases-is only one-ninth that for the same period last year. The Army, too, has the lowest rate of colds and flu in years. Though spring is still a long way off, health officials hopefully observed that a flu epidemic, if it comes at all, is usually well under way by November...
...children, to whom mumps is ordinarily not serious, the vaccine would have little meaning. But to grownups, it was good news. Reasons:1)the mumps virus often attacks the sex glands of men & women, may cause sterility; 2) the aftermath of mumps may be meningoencephalitis, deafness, or nephritis (inflammation of the kidney...
Licking its minor wounds with grim satisfaction, the Varsity football team turned its eyes yesterday from the rugged Holy Cross game aftermath to the arrival Saturday of a good Rutgers team. Aside from bumps and bruises, no member of the squad is ailing, and if there are no practice injuries this week, the Crimson will be at full strength for the Scarlet...
...they continue to talk of the political panacea. The British have failed--or never tried--to promote the welfare of India. The plans of the Nationalist leaders, much concerned with the preservation of their own personal spirits in the Vedaic aftermath, are similarly vague. To give meaning to this liberty, both the British and the Indians must work together from the ground to achieve some social foundation on which to build a union of the Indian peoples. Education, agricultural reform, social security, and systems of public health must be strengthened beyond their present token status as newsreel scenes of British...
...Office of Tourism hopefully announced that the season was in full swing. But the opening's aftermath was a sorry letdown. Last week, liveried flunkies and white-tied M.C.s stood at their posts in the Casino, ready to bow like diplomats; but on the ballroom's vast parquet just one couple did their stuff and only a few new-rich lingered over the green baize tables. In the main, Deauville had reverted to its 5,000 year-round inhabitants...