Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three other Eastern cities the League's first full schedule of the season gets underway, with at least one other key game. With only four games played, three teams--Yale, Princeton, and Pennsylvania--find themselves on top of the heap by virtue of single victories last week...
Shepard said last night that although fall baseball is new to the College, most of the other teams in the Crimson's league--the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League--allow early practice. He said that Navy, Columbia, and Yale, among others, hold formal fall baseball practice...
Although the Ivy League is quite strict in forbidding spring football practice, the Eastern League--composed of the Ivy teams plus Army and Navy--has no regulations governing early practice, according to Shepard...
...caused by viruses transmitted to men and farm animals from infected birds by insect vectors (i.e., carriers), usually mosquitoes or ticks. The viruses have been divided into distinct families labeled "A" and "B"; they crop up around the world in a variety of guises, e.g., Japanese "B" in eastern Asia; Murray Valley Fever in Australia; Mayaro and Ilheus in South and Central America; dengue in India and the West Indies; Chikungunya in Africa; Omsk hemorrhagic fever in Russia. Only a few of the forms circulate widely, even fewer represent great danger to human life. The virulent Japanese "B" variety...
...Fortunately, the U.S. is not often hurt by big, Asian-style outbreaks. The principal domestic forms-Western equine and St. Louis encephalitis -are usually more benign than their Oriental cousins. During an epidemic of Western equine in Utah last year, 47 cases were reported, but only one victim died. Eastern equine is more virulent: those who survive the brain congestion and the raging temperatures (up to 110° before death) often suffer some mental impairment or partial paralysis. The one mitigating factor is that the disease, though common among animals in the eastern U.S., Canada and South America, rarely attacks...