Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foundation has a $100, 000 fund to send 100 boys & girls to college. Highly publicized have been its standing offers of $250,000 for a cancer cure, $25,000 for an influenza cure...
...their equipment. Four years ago they all took up steel shafts. Three years ago they squabbled about sand-wedges. Two years ago they were troubled by the balloon ball. Three weeks ago a new subject for contention arose when Gene Sarazen, British and U. S. Open champion, ill of influenza in a Santa Monica hospital, took it upon himself to suggest that the cups on putting greens be enlarged from 4¼ in. to 8 in. Reason: "A crack player and one just average are playing. The average player puts his ball on the green, say, 20 or 25 feet...
...Current influenza is much milder than the devastating disease of 1918. Epidemiologists have been unable to discern rhythm or reason to these surges. In England the Press, having noted an unseasonable amount of rain, fog and snow over North Europe, blames raw weather...
Died. Kate Meyrick, sixtyish, mother of eight, London night club proprietor; of influenza; at the home of a son-in-law, the Earl of Kinnoull; in London. Choice hostesses at her clubs (Silver Slipper, 43 Club) were her daughters, available only to the socially & politically eminent. She served five prison terms for selling liquor without a license, for bribing police...
...diamond tycoon, was missing in the Sahara. She had been trying to break Amy Johnson Mollison's record of 4 days 7 hr. from London to Cape Town. French army planes found her the fifth day, in desolate country southeast of Gao. She was suffering from thirst, exhaustion, influenza...