Word: lesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demand for Work. India's cities teemed with unemployed, her factories were producing less steel, less cotton cloth and less jute than before independence. Prices were three times as high as in 1939. Last year India imported 2,200,000,000 rupees ($665 million) more than she exported ; she was deep in debt for the balance. Said Nehru in his Independence Day message: "Criticism and self-criticism are always welcome provided they do not take the place of work. Today, India demands work from her children...
...They, say (the American critics in particular) that Britain's woes have a simple origin in the socialist doctrines of the Labor Government-which is untrue. They say (the European critics in particular) that the British people are making less effort to get out of their troubles than the other peoples of Western Europe-which is not only untrue, but unfair and grossly insulting...
...been found on flies), or why polio is a hot-weather disease (although the virus can live a year in the deepfreeze), or why it has become more severe in the last half-century, especially in countries with high living standards. They do not know why it has become less common in New England, and far more serious in Kansas and California...
Most of the new knowledge is negative, but it is on the side of more calm and less panic. This week it became known that great numbers of cases diagnosed and reported as polio may not be polio at all. Three researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine reported that they had isolated a virus which causes a disease like non-paralytic polio. They found it last year in so-called polio victims in several cities. Still unnamed, the disease apparently does no lasting harm...
...frail sulkies and flying legs came a bay filly named Miss Tilly, driven by 69-year-old Fred Egan and owned by Charles W. Phellis of Greenwich, Conn. Miss Tilly gamely fought off a closing rush by a bay colt named Volume to win the first heat by less than a length...