Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stillman Infirmary can't treat all of the students sick with "grip' and influenza. So many students have applied for treatment that for the second time in four years the Infirmary has barred its doors and is treating students in their own rooms, the Hygiene Department disclosed yesterday...
...Hygiene Department has hired a special doctor to do the rounds in the dormitories. Most of the sickness is respiratory and there's a fairly large amount of intestinal "grip...
Doctors in the Hygiene Department say that students have no cause for worry over the increased amount of illness. The influenza and "grip" reported is not a virulent variety. As one doctor remarked, "If you're going to get, you're going to get, and there is no point in fussing about...
...Boston School Committee, which has upheld the Headmaster's action, once more reveals itself an intolerant and bigoted foe of intellectual freedom. As at the time of the passing of the teachers' oath bill, it has again raised the dreaded cry "Moscow!" while tightening its grip over Boston's school system. The people of Massachusetts must distinguish between arbitrary and legitimate restriction of rights, and should rise to defeat this attempted subversion of their liberties...
...Administration's feeble grip on important Rules, which Messrs. Dies, Dempsey (New Mexico) and Cor (Georgia) ran pretty much to suit themselves during the hearings. At one point poor old Chairman Sabath was nearly in tears as he banged on the table and shouted: "Don't do this! Don't do this! Gentlemen, please...