Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...translated snatches of anything Gidean they could get hold of. Dozens of university students announced that Gide would be the subject of their Ph.D. theses. In Manhattan's left-wing New Leader, Novelist Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon, TIME, May 26, 1941) deplored a similar outbreak of "French Flu" in England, denounced Gide's "esoteric arrogance [and] arrogant spiritualism...
...need for fewer symphony intermissions, or chaperoned opera boxes, but whatever the ultimate result, a lost frat pin for Heindel is the immediate one . . . With Hope's recuperation, we are again intact. The does have diagnosed his case as "strep" throat, but with Bunyard's pneumonia, Noel's flu, and Johnson's (either one) general condition, that's hard to understand--I guess this married life affects different ones in different ways . . . On the other hand, with a ski party planned in the 4th company this weekend, we don't recommend closing the infirmary altogether . . . May we be the first...
...that germs reach the earth from other planets, scientists would be very much surprised. But last week scientists were considering the idea. Professor Louis Backman of Uppsala University, Stockholm, a pharmacologist and medical writer well known throughout Europe, had suggested that it was entirely possible that organisms causing recent flu epidemics had come from Venus, Jupiter or Mars...
...President has bounced back wonderfully from his recent attack of flu. His above-average stamina is his strong point, said Dr. McIntire. He recovers quickly from extra strain, or illness. Only one thing worried Dr. McIntire: the long interruption in the President's peacetime schedule of five swims a week in the White House pool. Dr. McIntire hoped the President would soon resume this routine, also his periodic visits to Warm Springs (his last was in April...
...flu attack cost the President several pounds; but now he was back to his regular weight, between...