Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Things were getting pretty desperate. Finally came the request for "I Don't Want to Go to Bed." "Well, well," said the announcer, "Roger Merriman voices a cheerful complaint "I Don't Want to Go to Bed.' Well, stick with us, old boy. Sorry we haven't your record...
...viruses, particularly whether they are living or dead substances. Because he proved that viruses are lifeless molecules, the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week awarded Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute a $1.000 prize (see p. 39). Next day Dr. Stanley went to bed stricken by influenza...
...over the U. S. last week people were suffering sore throats, fever, aching eyes, back pains. They went home, stayed in bed two or three days, felt better, got up. There was probably no one in the nation who, if he escaped these symptoms, did not know someone who had not. Nevertheless, due to its short duration and apparent lack of killing power, health officials in all principal U. S. cities unanimously hesitated to dignify the widespread respiratory malady by describing it as an influenza epidemic...
...Because of the very large amount of acute respitory infections among students of the University, it is not possible for the time being to accomdate all who need bed care in Stillman Infirmary. Beds there will usually be reserved for Freshmen and other students not having facilities for obtaining meals at the place of residence...
Such things as long bull-sessions with one's cronies should not be neglected during Reading Period. Some last all night and you can spend the next day in bed and there is all that time you managed to save. Bull-sessions don't educate you at all, either. And sometimes you can make yourself sick enough smoking cigarettes to end up at the Infirmary. The Infirmary, of course, is the creme de la creme, and the pinnacle aspiration of the man who wants to spend his Reading Period wisely. There you can get chocolate milks and orange juice...