Word: loma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Dr. Frank R. Lemon of the College of Medical Evangelists in Loma Linda made a joint report to the California Medical Society. Basis of their study: 8,692 patients admitted to eight Seventh-day Adventist hospitals in southern California in 1952-56. Of these, 564 were Seventh-day Adventists who did not smoke or drink because their religion forbids, while 8,128 were of persuasions that take no stand on tobacco or alcohol, so many, but not all, both smoked and drank. All patients had either cancer or coronary...
...this was an absorbing story to me, so one of TIME's recent articles evoked a certain perplexity among the natives of Loma. As Editor Miller tells it: "TIME has brought news of the world to our remote African door. TIME articles have been given recognition in our publication. For example, your very newsworthy story about the trade of rice for cement in Burma (TIME, May 21) met with stupendous lack of sympathy in this rice-conscious, rice-loving part of the world. No Loma man would even consider trading rice for cement...
...Loma Weekly, published by the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Wesley Sadler of the Lutheran mission in Monrovia, could not exist if Dr. Sadler had not created a written Loma language from the spoken dialect. Now the tribesmen are becoming literate in their own tongue, eventually will move on to the study of English, the country's official language...
...common with publications everywhere, the Loma Weekly has its problems. Reports Liberian-born Editor Miller: "We were pleased to read your article in the recent issue of TIME (May 21 ) under PRESS and note the increased circulation of newspapers throughout the world. We wanted to save the article, but a cow entered our outdoor bathing place...
...Loma Weekly and its counterparts in jungles, mountains and deserts the world over, who communicate the news and whet the appetite for knowledge in the face of overwhelming obstacles and magazine-munching cows, a respectful salute...