Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...different with the infants of the poor, who lived amid filth, got an infection in their first few months while still protected by passive immunity from inherited antibodies. Now the better-heeled families are dutifully getting Salk shots early and often. The people at the bottom of the economic ladder have learned enough about health protection to get their babies up out of the yard filth, but not enough to have their youngsters vaccinated. As a result, paralytic polio (2,499) struck hardest at children from low-income groups...
...given the symbolic Club ties and front door keys. On most occasions, initiation nights turn ultimately into alcoholic brawls, and the University Police place them high on their winter social calendar. The Cambridge Fire Department also is usually summoned to provide entertainment for this event. Hook and ladder teams descend noisily on the Fly Club in response to false alarms turned in from the box on the Fly's wall by gleeful members of rival clubs...
...water, poured plenty of it on officers' wives jammed in the New London officers' club to meet her, icily asked them to leave so she could "talk business" with their husbands. Later Esther slid down the Trout hatch in a skirt that swung all eyes to the ladder, forced another costume change (back on land again) that delayed shooting for hours. Finally Esther walked out a day and a half before Producer Saudek was through. Saudek went on without her, praised the Navy's exquisite forebearance. Cracked Omnibus' host, Alistair Cooke: "This has been the noblest...
...oldsters whose sheer numbers will revolutionize not only the practice of medicine but also the world's social, political and economic structure, gerontologists turn both to their test tubes and to individuals like Amos Alonzo Stagg. From him and the men on nearby rungs of time's ladder they hope to learn what are the common denominators in longevity-and, more especially, in useful longevity. For they subscribe to the motto: "Not just to add years to life, but to add life to years...
...Arcadia ship has occasionally sailed on stormy seas. On "Flagpole Day" (last May 16) a few students raised a German swastika over the campus. Three air force sergeants, two city electricians, and a hook and ladder crew were required to get it down...