Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale, but Soldier's Field was having its biggest afternoon of the season. The pretty girls and the undergraduates (with and without bottles) mingled with players, players' families, and Yalies along the sidelines of the dozen-odd football and soccer games. When the Crimson started piling up victories, football fever began to take hold...
Died. Dr. Horace G. Smithy, 34, the surgeon who performed a daring heart operation (TIME, Feb. 16) to remove rheumatic fever scar tissue; of the same heart condition and other ailments, before he could finish training other surgeons in the technique that might have saved his own life; in Charleston...
After three years as head of our Shanghai bureau, Bill Gray was coming home. He decided to combine his return with a vacation for himself, his wife, and their children: Bruce, 4; Larry, 7; Margrethe, 11. Fortified by smallpox vaccinations and inoculations against plague, typhus, typhoid fever and cholera, the Grays set out for a 15,000-mile journey via eight different national airlines and a steamship company. Their departure from Shanghai resounded with exploding firecrackers set off by their Chinese servants to remove the evil spirits from their route. Says Gray...
...clock back. We shall live for many years in a restless world and may find that the close contacts between the nations serve to emphasize friction rather than to advance the unity of men. A crisis in this sort of world may not be a turning point in the fever chart but a long sustained plateau of tension...
Long after football fever has died away for the year and hockey and basketball have taken the spotlight, a hardy but little-known group of Crimson athletes will still be working at their chilly specialty...