Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arteries. Sometimes the smallest scratch may still mean gangrene. Though insulin has sent the younger (under 40) diabetic's life expectancy soaring, the overall death rate has actually increased during the insulin era: diabetes in 1920 caused 1.4% of all U.S. deaths, now causes 2.5%.* Most diabeticians still feel much as Banting did when he was invited by a U.S. university to deliver a two-hour talk on the disease: "Hell," said he, "for all I know about diabetes, 15 minutes would be enough...
...last week's findings are finally approved by the Department of Agriculture, as seems likely, General Foods will be punished even more. It will be suspended from commodity trading for one year. Said General Foods weakly: "Somehow or other we just don't feel guilty of anything...
...Wage Stabilization Board is not acting as referee to two outside parties, but realistically determining how much of the taxpayer's money is to be spent in underwriting seamen's pay (still low according to American standards) and company profits. And every time jolting Joe Curran and Harry Lundeberg feel itchy and sailors on the nation's waterfronts tumble off the ships, they cast a longing thought back over the hectic thirties. For then the villian was rich, boated and all capitalist, and not wearing red, white and blue suspenders...
...asked to join groups interested in everything from Chinese idols to Bulgarian chess. Individuality is an after-hours proposition, especially since classwork on the mass production level leaves little room for the personal slant. Mr. '50 will fiind in a College of 5500 men a least a handful who feel the same way about the Russians, or like back-handed Cribbage. It is in this group that he may lose his serial-number status for awhile, and, like the unhurried freshmen of 1846, reconstruct the world...
Living in Hollis or Stoughton this year, some yardling is sure to find himself believing that it is both unreasonable and insanitary to go putting 93-odd men into each of the two old buildings. He might feel these were too many people breathing a limited amount of air, too many unsocked feet befouling the evening breeze...