Word: flu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team has also been quite fortunate in the matter of injuries, with no major and only a few minor ones. A little difficulty arose because of sickness, primarily the flu; but the effect of this was minimized by the great depth...
Polio and flu vaccinations will be administered to students and faculty at 15 Holyoke St. throughout the rest of the term, Dr. Orrin Levin announced yesterday. Polio inoculations will be given Mondays and Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. and Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10-11 a.m. Flu vaccinations will be administered daily...
Also commenting was Von Stade, who said, "We have very little knowledge about what motivates a student to do well." Citing the Asian Flu epidemic last fall as one "minor" reason for the drop, he commented that "perhaps the remarkable thing is not last year's drop, but the consistent rise for five years before that...
...campaigns, hauled voters to the polls as soon as he was old enough to drive a car. In 1917 he signed up as an infantry private, developed his parade-ground voice (the House's second loudest, after Illinois' Noah Mason), won lieutenant's bars Stateside before flu struck him down. At Indiana University, one of the big playing fields for future Hoosier politcos, he maneuvered his way to student-union president, helped earn his own way (food manager for Beta Theta Pi fraternity), made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated (A.B., 1922) sixth in a class...
...course that trench fighting is way out of date now. But it was a stinking business: trench-foot, wet, trenchmouth, lice, mud, flu. I remember we used to open our tins of food and they'd be all blown up with gas and poison." He looks out over the dump silently, gazing...