Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pediatricians in & around Washington had been concerned in recent summers over an "unknown" illness which had broken out among children. Symptoms: sudden and high fever, small blisters in the throat, occasional loss of appetite, vomiting, convulsions and prostration, head-and stomachache. Dr. R. J. Huebner and other doctors hunted high & low in medical literature for description of such a disease but found none. Deciding it was a new one, they prepared to report it in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Steroids are a large group of natural organic substances which have in common a nucleus which includes four rings of carbon atoms. Among the complete steroids are androsterone and testosterone (the male sex hormones) and cortisone, which has recently been used very effectively in the treatment of arthritis, rheumatic fever, and burns...
...turn of the century died before they were old enough to go to school. Today, if a child reaches his first birthday, he will almost surely reach high-school age. Reason : many of the leading child-killers of the past-diarrhea, whooping cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever-have been all but conquered. Pneumonia, heart diseases, TB and cancer still take a heavy toll, but even these killers are being discouraged by medical progress in treatment and early diagnosis...
This seems to us a reasonable program for peace. But action must be taken soon, before animosities become deep-rooted and passions rise to fever pitch. Furthermore, freshmen applying to the Houses will have to know which House is which before making their final choices...
Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston tried to oil the troubled waters in conferences with labor's bosses. He apparently cooled labor's fever only a few degrees. But this week the Administration made one oblique attempt at conciliation. The President appointed ex-Senator Frank P. Graham, former president of the University of North Carolina, onetime War Labor Board member and labor's good friend, as defense manpower administrator in the Labor Department...