Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this last half of the twentieth century, but the most important question about the coed at one time was simply this: Why should women go to college at all? A great many people believed, in all sincerity, that undue mental strain would cause women to have 'brain fever.'. . . Others, unable to imagine any other role for women but that of housewife and mother, felt that higher education was a complete waste of time and effort. And a third group, doubtless composed of the real benighted conservatives of the day, felt that college could only result in rendering [women...
...Henri Coudraux, a deputy chief of staff to SHAPE. Ike followed the old French custom which calls for chief mourners, whether lay or clerical, to dip a silver goupillon in holy water and sprinkle it on the coffin. Later, Ike took to his bed with a throat infection and fever, which further delayed his goodbye tour...
...purpose: getting tickets for the Chelsea-Arsenal soccer game, the semifinal climax of the Football Association Cup matches. By noon, 50,000 tickets had been sold, and scalpers were offering them for resale at eight times the 2 shillings sixpence (35?) purchase price. Britons were at a World Series fever pitch...
Students contracted the disease before the vacation, for the incubation period is 10 to 14 days. Preliminary symptoms are a sore throat and swollen glands. Fever and a rash appear later. Although German measles is a three-day disease, regular measles last at least one week...
...general it is away from the neo-breezeblown toward the neo-neat. The pigtail of yesteryear is not yet gone but is is fading fast. No longer does the milkmaid arrange her silken tresses into the wonted braids. Her sister in the big city is likewise gripped by the fever of change. On all sides the idols of the past are falling--even the neo-underbrush, once so secure, is threatened. No one knows what the future may hold...