Word: contagions
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...could not fix on a place that could better unite all the conditions essential to a seat of education, sufficiently near to Boston to enjoy all the advantages of communication with Europe and the rest of the world, and yet sufficiently distant not to expose the students to the contagion of licentious manners common in commercial towns...
Without a fine performance in the role of the girl, Ann Putnam, the atmosphere of the witch trials would be difficult to understand. But Abigail Lewis plays the part of the accuser with a shocking mixture of malice and unbalance that makes the contagion of her hysteria easily believable. The passion of her seizures punctuates the sober dialogues of her elders and the dignity of courtroom procedure with the note of tension that lies beneath the whole action of the play. As her bewildered father, Layton Zimmer gives the weakest of the major performances, and fails adequately to show...
...demanded $1,080,000 (actual value of the herd by Government computation) in duty penalties. Last week federal officials were preparing to present their case against Broussard to a grand jury. Mexico demanded that the Charolais be returned, but the U.S., ever fearful of foot-and-mouth contagion and southern tick fever, wondered whether it shouldn't slaughter the cattle and wind up the case once...
Benedictine Graham thinks of his own monastery "not as an asylum in which to escape from the contagion of the worldly-minded, but as a place of withdrawal from which to obtain a truer view of the world God so loved as to send his Son to save it -a world to whose well-being [we] owe a direct contribution...
That same year, some letter-writing alumni became unhappy aroused when Henry Wallace was invited to make a speech at Harvard. At the time Wallace was busily attacking U.S. foreign policy, Wall Street, Defense Secretary Forrestal, and the Marshall Plan, and some alumni considered Wallace worse than a contagion carrier...