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...person under 45 with an income of $10,000 or more the average number of visits to a physician is 5.0 per year. When the income level drops to under $3,000 visits drop to 3.2 per year. Even with free medical programs this discrepancy remains. In England after fifteen years experience with the National Health Service, it's the higher income groups that make better use of the program. And at the Martha Eliot Center, Dr. Salber said, the children have many more minor ailments than normally: colds, respiratory ailments, chronic coughs. "We wonder if they get their medicine...
...went for fifteen brutal minutes as the Crimson piled on 8 goals and won by its largest margin in the last four years...
After working out for two days on the Detroit Tiger's practice field in Lakeland, Fla., the squad met the Florida Southern nine. Coach Norm Shepard used three pitchers, and alternated fifteen other players in the field to get a good look at his squad. Still, Harvard led until the bottom of the ninth when Southern scored the winning...
...classroom, we were anxious to compensate for the fifteen years of dreary teaching most of the Shaw students had gotten. But we were well aware that simple drill was not going to achieve miracles...
Please pay close attention to "we were anxious to compensate for the fifteen years." You were so sure you could do it that you did not even bother to insert "attempt to compensate." Moreover, fifteen years is a tremendous overstatement. It, too, reflects that inflated opinion of yourself...