Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children. Hospital facilities are limited and primitive. Many men with weeks-old wounds covered by filthy dressings are still unattended. Several hospital ships serve the more seriously wounded and a few of the sick have been transferred to the interior. The refugees have become a danger to the general health of adjacent communities. Families are still separated and rare is the man or woman who is not ceaselessly looking for kin. On one day a local French newspaper published gratis ten columns of refugee "personals." Typical insert: "José Manuel Garcia begs for news of his wife Lena, last heard...
...cabbage, mashed potatoes, soup, figs and custard; a good big high tea and a dinner of fish and chips, tea, bread and milk. Result: 1,400 have passed the Army tests. Another, unwanted, result: Laborites are asking why undernourished women and children cannot also be fed back to health...
...quarter, too, but the authorities said no because he has not swum it this year. Chet Sagenkahn will enter the dives and should do well if he concentrates on the high-board. Art Bosworth, Bob White, and George Dana of the Crimson team are staying home because of health and studies...
...design an intelligent theatre, if possible. The challenger was a hopeful organization entitled the American Na tional Theatre and Academy, whose advisory board includes such theatre folk as Katharine Cornell, Maxwell Anderson, the Lunts, Lee Simonson, Robert Edmond Jones. Because these people believe that future health and expansion for the U. S. theatre lies in the hinterland rather than in hectic Manhattan, the site pro posed for their festival theatre was on the campus of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. First prize...
...article accused of slandering Italy's celebrated crippled poet, Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). The author of the piece, a young Italian critic who had dug up. much new material on Leopardi, admitted, the poet was "never very strong," but suggested that Leopardi's poor health may have been aggravated by his passion for ice cream...