Word: feverishness
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...steady diet of dogmatism and Marxism." People react to party-line operas by "voting with their feet," i.e., staying away. Movies, almost the only entertainment most Chinese can afford (admission: 10?) are improved, thanks to a "trend away from the heavily propagandized production." In China's feverish attempt to educate its illiterate masses, schools are so crowded that students who finish one grade have to work on farms until there is room in the next...
...coats, and straw hats were standard gear in every college town from Des Moines of Hanover. But it was a standard of abnormally, and that was what made it delightful. The personality, the character, the eccentric were warmly welcomed in every group, on every campus. Novelty was pursued with feverish intensity; if you could discover a new way of spending time, flagpole sitting for instance, your reputation was immediately established. And, while girls were flapping and boys were growing bigger and better moustaches, the generation found itself pregnant with off-beat geniuses. In the sordid Village parties, along the unpredictable...
...only big deposit of sodium borate ore (at Boron), the cheapest and easiest type of the mineral to mine and process. The company's ancestry is the story of borax mining in the U.S. The discovery of borax in a California hot spring in 1856 set off feverish prospecting and mining that eventually made the U.S. the world's leading borax producer. Among the most successful of the earlier prospectors were Francis Marion ("Borax") Smith and William T. Coleman...
...Yearbook is its freedom from error. Its president has proudly pointed out that all of the polls add up to 100%, a welcome innovation. That the figures in the polls do not always match the figures in the stories on the polls is probably only the work of feverish imagination. Even the spelling of Agassiz with two g's, the description of Radcliffe girls as "winsome," and the reference to the maternal types in the Union as Frauleins should be considered only quirks of whimsy...
...case was typical of 21 which the disease detectives studied in detail. Then they did some medical gumshoe work, sent interviewers to every house in town, turned up scores of additional cases. Some victims also had other symptoms, such as terrifying dreams, difficulty in swallowing, and a feverish feeling not justified by a slight rise in temperature. Nearly always there was a letup after a few weeks, then a series of relapses throughout the five-month period of study. Women were victims twice as commonly as men, and their cases were more severe. Inexplicably, there were no cases among children...