Word: flu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stillman Infirmary's busiest month, is March, but it has already passed the all-time record set last year by treating 1,340 cases since September. Andrew W. Contratto, assistant medical advisor, blamed most of the increase in sickness to the recent epidemic of flu, which accounted for about 300 cases...
When accused by sick and frats Freshmen, one of the hostesses at the Union flatly denied that the food was to blame. "It is either the change in weather or an aftermath of the flu. It often happens," she insisted...
...words), taught by Harvard's Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, who was lent to North Carolina especially for the occasion. Although the visitors learned rapidly, the campus had some chuckles. At the movies, a South American asked his date whether she had yet been afflicted with "the constipation" (flu). Another visitor, invited to a freshman party, told his colleagues that he had a date with "the fresh people." Asked in class to name something that could be seen and touched, Señor Luis Samiento replied: "My wife, but only...
...fact-studded speech (read for him since he had the flu), spoke not of cotton but of the South. Quoting TVA's David Lilienthal, he accused his native land of having exported its soil's fertility, for which no price, however free or however protected, is high enough. Said he: "There is many a gullied hillside in our south eastern States today that is being plowed by a scrub mule, trying to raise cotton in competition with Oscar Johnston's mechanized Pine Delta plantation. It can't be done." His solution: diversification and mechanization of southern...
...York City still enjoyed good health. So far, its cases of flu had been only slightly above average. Busiest physician in the city was Dr. Frank Lappin Horsfall of the Rockefeller Institute whose new vaccine is being tried on thousands of human guinea pigs throughout the U. S. When given during an epidemic, or just before, it apparently confers no protection...