Word: contagion
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...results of such methodical precision startled even the oldest adepts in the game. What to do under given conditions was no longer a simple matter of individual ingenuity. Football had been put through the laboratory and reduced to a science. The contagion of Coach Haughton's magnetic personality, moreover, inspired in his teams a pluckiness and "fight" which made them undaunted in defeat as well as in victory. So successful was his system, that when he resigned, Coach Fisher, who had himself been drilled in the Haughton school, chose to continue...
...well-known Springfield citizen ap peared on his front porch, clad in dressing gown and carpet slippers. In his hands were the family tongs. With these he carefully picked up a tainted object which lay before him. Marching around, instead of through, the house, to avoid the possibility of contagion to holy precints, he deposited the object in the garbage can by the kitchen door. With crisis met and duty done, he resumed the day's meditations...
...effects of the war are evidently still working themselves out. Crowns have been rolled out of Russia and Germany and made practically impotent in Italy. Now the contagion has spread into the Balkans...
...enough bread, they hurled what they had; since dishes were bare, they broke them. Finally they raised their Jolly Roger, a sign on which a skull and bones had been drawn with the epitaph underneath: "This man ate at Commons." While one must make liberal allowance for mob contagion and the human weakness for kicking, yet when five hundred students join their voices in the chorus of woe there must be something to cause the ferment...
These are the days when the Infirmary List grows ominously long. Dr. Lee's recent report reminds us that the coming months are the lowest on the graph of average health. The press is filled with rumors of a new influenza epidemic. Surely we cannot afford to play with contagion here, where disease once started is apt to spread throughout the University like a forest fire. Fortunately, the cessation of classes offers a partial fire-break. But sore-throats and anesges are not to be tolerated; no man with even an incipient cold should shun the doctor's office...