Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though appendicitis is more prevalent than ever, the appendicitis death rate is only one-third what it was in 1929. Present rate: 5.2 per 100,000. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which reported this figure last week in its Statistical Bulletin, says that the chief reason for the low rate is that more people have learned not to take laxatives when they have a bellyache...
...Marines of the battle-hardened Amphibious V Corps (Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok) took time out to grin. On a bulletin board was a notice from one of the outfit's censors, addressed to a private.The message...
...news trickled in in driblets: a radio flash, an A.P. bulletin, a telephone call from Wisconsin. Right from the first it was bad, incredibly, disastrously bad. When the reports from only 50 out of more than 3,000 precincts were in, Wendell Willkie said: "Well, that looks like it. We said it would be all or nothing, and it looks like nothing." Somebody suggested that 50 precincts weren't very many. But Willkie only smiled and shook his head...
Wrote Mai-mai Sze, artist daughter of Alfred Sao-ke Sze, former Ambassador to the U.S., in the Museum of Modern Art Bulletin: "Any child in Russia, Europe, or England, might do the counterpart. . . . A war child of the West would also know, as instinctively as the Chinese child, that a black line drawn along the hollow of the cheek is enough to describe hunger, and that people with empty stomachs seldom stand...
...Bulletin, always known for small type and small starting salaries, is no stranger to bigness-it has the biggest presses in the U.S., biggest home delivery, some of the biggest executive salaries in the business. But the editorial Big Stick is still a stranger to the biggest evening newspaper...