Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which otherwise might be years in the forging. Plain common peril might be translated into plain common courage. Moscow's atom-smashing made obsolete no major part of a political strategy that embraced the Atlantic pact, U.S. military aid to Europe, and restoration of Europe's economic health. The U.S. did not have to change what it was doing. It had only to do it better and faster...
...year-old Lautrec died, his delicate health overtaxed by Montmartre's fast-paced night life. Demanding the best in printing, colors and paper, he had gained little from his excursions into "commercial" art beyond the satisfaction of a job magnificently done. But by last week his posters, which had at one time decorated kiosks, boulevard hoardings and alley walls all over Paris, were collectors' items bringing prices up to $400 a copy...
After a headlong start early in the year, infantile paralysis was slowing down. By last week, U.S. Public Health Service chartmakers could point with confidence to the week ended Aug. 20 (in which 3,419 cases were reported) as the year's peak. Since then, the curve has been downward. But 1949 was certain to have a staggering polio toll marked against it: already 29,051 cases had been reported, and by year's end the total would be nearer...
Most schools opened on schedule, and health authorities argued that children were safer in school than out because carefully regulated schedules would protect them from overexertion. Besides, it is easier to get them to bed earlier with the warning of "school tomorrow." But in the lower grades there were many empty seats. Said a Brooklyn principal: "Parents are dreadfully scared...
Mather said that in order to retain Yugoslavian independence at this time, Tito needs to insure the health of Yugoslavia's economy...