Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earnest men and women who support the American Social Hygiene Association listened to facts and exhortations. From the President of the U. S. and his wife down to the most blushing volunteer social worker, there was evidenced a determination to make venereal diseases, especially syphilis, as rare as typhoid fever. Repeatedly quoted.was President Roosevelt's recent dictum, first of its kind uttered by a man in his office: "Attainment of your objectives would do much to conserve our human resources and would reduce considerably the present large costs for the community care of the disastrous results of the venereal...
...Prince Mihai of Rumania who had just had his royal appendix out. Mihai, 15, had been stricken while visiting his mother Princess (once Queen) Helen. His father King Carol kept in touch by telephone from Bucharest where His Majesty's brother Prince Nicholas had come down with scarlet fever. At "Barley Thorpe," Oakham, Rutland-shire, England the sporting and highly self-appreciative Earl of Lonsdale celebrated his 80th birthday by describing how in 1879 he "most certainly" outboxed the late, great Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan. Famed for his loud habit of bawling to British traffic policemen...
...Quarantinable diseases which prevent radio pratique are: cholera, leprosy, yellow fever, anthrax, typhus fever, smallpox, plague (bubonic, pneumonic or septicemic), parrot fever. In addition to those diseases, in which the Government has special interest, New York City will prevent radio pratique if a ship harbors chicken pox, diphtheria, dysentery (amebic or bacillary), epidemic encephalitis, German measles, measles, meningococcus meningitis, mumps, paratyphoid fever, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, or whooping cough. Only ships regularly in the following services may use radio pratique: between New York and European ports, between East and West coasts...
fraternal societies so furiously get together? -because men are afraid of the wide open spaces. TROPIC FEVER-Ladislao Szekely-Har- per ($3). Plain reminiscences of the author's sweaty experiences as youthful overseer on tobacco and rubber plantations in Sumatra 20 years back...
...canvas-covered court an hour and a half later staggered Vines and Perry. Recuperating from grippe before the match, both were so ill that by the time reporters reached it, the locker-room looked like a clinic. Vines had a fever of 102°. Said Perry: "I'm going to be sick. . . ." Score of the match, in which neither played anything like as ably as he can, was 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 for Perry...