Word: influenza
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...week of sore trial-a week of raw winds, raw tempers, busted water pipes, frozen radiators, sniffles, skids, tumbles-a week of frustration when auto-supply houses ran out of tire chains, when hot-water heaters blew up, trains were late, mails delayed, and cases of influenza (10,000 in North Louisiana) closed schools that few children could reach. Snowbound New Englanders of Whittier's day might be undisturbed at seeing No cloud above, no earth below A universe of sky and snow...
Died. Edward Stephen Harkness, 66. famed but retiring charitarian, who spent his life giving away the fortunes he inherited from his father (Standard Oil), his mother, a brother; of intestinal influenza and complications; in Manhattan. Edward Harkness' secret was the total of his gifts; the known sum exceeded $100,000,000. His beneficiaries included Yale (his alma mater) and Harvard, where his millions provided U. S. versions of the Oxford college system; Columbia (a library, medical funds); Phillips Exeter Academy and other preparatory schools; the Commonwealth Fund (upwards of $50,000,000 for rural hospitals, medical research, education...
...With hunger and cold came pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, pleurisy, aggravations of cardiac and diabetic cases, said the society's matter-of-fact report...
...cause & cure of cancer, rheumatism, influenza, the common cold, a score of other diseases, doctors know practically nothing. But there are boundaries to medical ignorance: and from time to time doctors map the little they do know. Last week appeared a convenient manual of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) which clearly stated the main problems facing research workers...
...saved from monotony by Satan (who arrives so punctually each day he could just as well deliver the mail), assorted ghosts, the old lady's coffin (which, pending its final function, she uses as a kind of chaise longue), windstorms, shotguns, sluts from the city and the black influenza...