Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speech Therapy. When Marclan was three, she was not expected to live. Somehow she clung to life until it was time to go to school, and ever since she has been determined to keep up with her peers. As a high-school senior she won an American Legion essay contest. The prize: a scholarship at Marshall. There (she will be a senior next month) she is taking eleven credit hours, five of them in speech, and plans to become a speech therapist. An average of six times a year she has to go to St. Mary's Hospital...
This was the word last week at a University of Michigan symposium with which the National Foundation launched its 1959 March of Dimes. Vaccinventor Jonas Salk was more frank than ever before in conceding the ineffectiveness of an unspecified proportion of the commercial vaccine released, and contrasting it with the small batches made in his University of Pittsburgh laboratory. Dr. Salk has always stoutly insisted that his handmade vaccine was capable of doing everything expected of it, and among hundreds of children inoculated with it there have been few cases where it failed to "take." Lat since wholesale vaccinations began...
...high tide of Protestant missions that once swept across the seas may seem to the unchurched an ebbing effort in a world of Communist persecution and colonial nationalism. But the tide is higher than ever, according to a new report by the Missionary Research Library. There are at least 10,000 more U.S. and Canadian Protestant missionaries at work around the world than there were in 1950, and the total figure of 25,058 is more than four times as large as at the turn of the century, when the ''missionary era" seemed at its height...
...worth of goods and reports a 35% jump in sales for the first eight days of 1959: "Last year the buyers at the show were all just walking around looking, with long faces-this year they were all smiling and buying. It is the greatest market I've ever seen...
...English Literature) shows precisely the position Jane Austen holds in English literature, for would anyone whisper "Dear Alfred" at Tennyson's grave or "Dear Charles" at Dickens'-still less be urged to do so by an academic history? The fact is that though no two "Janeites" can ever agree on what words to use in venerating the author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Mansfield Park, none doubt that worship is indicated. Even rugged Rudyard Kipling imagined her being greeted in paradise by Fielding, Smollett, Cervantes and Shakespeare...