Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have worked for over a year and a half on those murals. I had to cancel my art courses at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. . . . I risked my health and made considerable financial sacrifices in order to paint my message...
...Down to meet them swooped from the interior their common brother-in-law. Generalissimo Chiang. A minor problem first to be disposed of was the abrupt resignation 'of Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and several lesser members of the Cabinet. Moon-faced Mr. Wang resigned "because of poor health," the others "in sympathy with Mr. Wang." Politicians, they were getting out in advance of the coming Kuomintang (National People's Party) Congress which promises to erupt with indignation against the Government's unparalleled series of surrenders to Japan (TIME, June 17 & 24). surrenders which included dissolving...
...North Carolina-Virginia epidemic of infantile paralysis last week threatened to stir up an epidemic of hysteria. Dr. Martha Edith MacBride-Dexter, Pennsylvania's Secretary of Health, persuaded Governor Earle to persuade Secretary of War Dern to forbid the mobilization of Virginia and District of Columbia National Guardsmen for summer maneuvers in Pennsylvania. Virginia and District of Columbia troops therefore played war in their own backyards...
Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service braced himself against hysteria, cried: "In more than one area this year physicians have been reporting as infantile paralysis questionable and mild cases of infection in order to be on the safe side. Thus the figures as reported are not comparable with those of other years in such places. There is also a moderate increase in the number of true cases reported in several areas without any threat of a real epidemic or any direct connection with the Southern epidemic...
Brighton was merely a small health resort when George of Wales made it his summer court. Eighteenth Century physicians commonly prescribed large quantities of mineral water for all ailments; at Brighton invalids dosed themselves accordingly and discovered the pleasures of bathing almost by accident. By the time Prince George arrived, bathing had become popular, although noblemen were still usually so dirty that no sensitive person could stay long in a crowd of them. At Brighton the young prince found congenial companions-most of them enemies of his father-and with them raced horses, chased girls, picked quarrels, went shooting...