Word: development
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First came Q fever (so called because it was identified in Queensland, Australia, in 1935), a distant and comparatively harmless relative of typhus. Its victims, usually stockyard or dairy workers, develop flu-like symptoms. By week's end 116 cases had been reported...
...still too early to talk about curing or preventing colds-even the type of common cold caused by V14A. Dr. Topping (who developed the first effective serum for Rocky Mountain spotted fever in 1940) would say only that a vaccine is "a possibility, not a probability." (It took ten years to develop a flu vaccine after the flu virus was isolated in 1933.) As a final gloomy thought, Dr. Topping feared that even if a vaccine is developed, it will give immunity for only a very short time, and, of course, against only one type of cold...
Like other types of mental patients, alcoholics are generally self-centered and defiant. During drinking bouts especially, they develop expansive egos and large ideas, are given to a well-recognized disease known as "telephonitis," i.e., an irresistible itch to make long-distance phone calls, particularly to their psychiatrists (one well-heeled alcoholic of Tiebout's acquaintance runs up phone bills of $400 a month...
Purpose of the House Committee's recent investigations of Communist activity, the leaflet contends, was to give "Fascism free reign to develop while the public's attention is diverted...
Student self-government is a democratic process in miniature. At Harvard, moreover, this process involves a community from which many of tomorrow's political and intellectual leaders will develop. If our "higher education" is "education for democracy" the effectiveness of student government within the college must be carefully examined...