Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia, S.C., after a three-year study, the National Malaria Society's Journal reported some cheering statistics. Aboard some 28,000 planes entering the U.S. annually from malaria-infested areas were "several thousand" mosquito stowaways. But only 11% wriggled through the rigid quarantine curtain and arrived alive at New Orleans, Miami and Brownsville. Of these, not more than 20 a year were the exotic, potential carriers of malaria. The chances of this tiny number ever managing to survive and increase, the Journal said, were "infinitesimal and of no quarantine concern...
Napoleon was unafraid of cannon because he was afraid of something else: cancer. So says Esther H. Vincent, librarian at Northwestern Medical School, in the current Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, official journal of the American College of Surgeons. Writes Miss Vincent: "This fixed idea that he would die from cancer of the stomach saved [Napoleon] from fear of death in any other form. Wounded in battle, he took no heed, for he knew he would not die from bullets. His belief in his charmed life was not fearlessness [nor] faith in his 'miraculous invulnerability,' but certainty that death...
...future, the medical society's council stands ready to expel any member found guilty of accepting rebates from any source. The A.M.A.'s Journal promised that an editorial denouncing kickbacks to doctors would appear in next week's issue. A warning also came from Los Angeles' Collector of Internal Revenue Harry C. Westover; he said that he would see whether doctors had reported their rebates to the tax collector...
...papers are still looking for Dick Harlow's successor, and most of them are doing pretty well. In fact, the only consideration to limit the scribes so far is whether their candidate for the post has his picture filed away among the paper's stockpile of photographic cuts. One journal discovered Wes Fesler's face in the closet and started forthwith to bring the well-known Ohio State mentor to Cambridge. Another found Frank Leahy's countenance on hand, but went through the formality of calling the South Bend shepherd on the telephone before laying any plans for his proposed...
Harvard has anti-leftist teachers, too," was the frank admission headlined by Saturday's Chicago Tribune, after the sensationalist journal had spent a week hurling invective at "communism" in the College courses and faculty...