Word: grimmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lying-in Hospital, he witnessed the horrors that were to haunt his life and give it purpose. One out of every three women who entered the First Division ward died of childbed fever; most victims' babies died too. In other parts of the world the story was even grimmer. At Jena over a four-year period, the death toll among infection victims was 100%. Among "causes" of the fever, doctors who had never heard of the germ theory listed wounded modesty, cosmic-telluric influences, fear, bad ventilation, climate and a feeling of guilt...
HERMAN J. V. GRIMMER JR. San Salvador, El Salvador
...prevented the resumption of normal life after China's liberation. Now the mere end of fighting'would bring a resumption of trade and a measure of (relative) prosperity. What would happen when Mao Tse-tung no longer needed to tread softly would be another-and a grimmer-story...
Tips by Telephone. This week it was the Baltimore Colts' turn to be fooled by Albert & Co. It took some doing. The Colts were leading 10 to 0 at half time. Frankie, whose passes were misfiring, got grimmer each time he trotted in to the bench (which was each time his team lost the ball). Often he picked up a telephone and asked: "What have you got for me?" Up in the press box, armed with binoculars, an assistant coach gave him a G-2 fill-in (Sample: "Their ends are playing wide, so try a stop...
...next year), is probably as candid a confession of a writer's moral and ethical anguish as ever got into print. Not even in Gide's own sensationally indiscreet autobiography, It Die (a limited edition appeared in the U.S. in 1935), is the reader treated to a grimmer spiritual wrestling match than in this account of Gide v. his personal devil, Gide v. an inhospitable world, Gide v. his Puritan conscience...