Word: englands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since mid-June, the heat-humid, tropical, inescapable-had pressed down on great areas of the U.S. In the region around the Great Lakes, in New England and the middle Atlantic coast, the hottest summer on record was in the making. It had been equally hot or hotter in the South and parts of the Southwest, where such weather is more normal, but not more bearable. Last week, temperatures pushed even higher...
...polio is a hot-weather disease (although the virus can live a year in the deepfreeze), or why it has become more severe in the last half-century, especially in countries with high living standards. They do not know why it has become less common in New England, and far more serious in Kansas and California...
...Midland St. Leger Trial Stakes last week at Birmingham, England, only two horses went to the post. All others had been scratched because the track was dry and hard and the distance, a mile and five-eighths, was punishing. Gordon Richards, Britain's leading jockey, with 163 winners this year, was aboard the favorite, Ridge Wood. The other horse was Courier, ridden by Tommy Lowrey. Each trainer had told his rider to let the other horse set the pace...
...board chairman of Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., returned from a European trip last week with some eye-popping estimates of the market for American tobacco-providing a way could be found around the dollar shortage, possibly by barter deals (e.g., U.S. tobacco for French cigarette paper). Item: "Workingmen in England spend a quarter of their average weekly earnings of ?5 on cigarettes...
...story of Tennyson's vast Victorian lifetime is like the story of a civilization in Toynbee: the whole age is embodied in it. Born in 1809, he was descended from the yeomanry and the county families that together bred England's great middle class. The north-country parsonage of his childhood tumbled with ten brothers & sisters; at seven he had to be able to chirp from memory the four books of Horace's Odes...