Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since influenza seems to be a regular aftermath of war, U.S. health officers have been on the lookout for an epidemic. Last week they were pleased to note that so far flu had been unusually hard to find. The season's total to date-26,977 cases-is only one-ninth that for the same period last year. The Army, too, has the lowest rate of colds and flu in years. Though spring is still a long way off, health officials hopefully observed that a flu epidemic, if it comes at all, is usually well under way by November...
...size nickel weekly. Its founders were Nathaniel Willis, the man who helped make European travel fashionable, and George P. Morris, the man who wrote Woodman, Spare That Tree. For the provincial U.S. of 1846, their aim was high: "... to give the cream of new books, to keep a watchful lookout for genius in literature, music...
...joint he had invented, 2) a Government investigator inquiring into the political complexion of the Kansas City Star, 3) a writer looking for special material for his novel, 4) a paste salesman wanting desk space and a telephone, 5) the owner of a coal mine in Alberta on the lookout for unemployed coal miners; telephone calls from all sorts of people asking specific information (e.g., "what's this new country club in town people have been asking about?"), an invitation from a local civic organization to participate in one of its projects, the usual run of publicity agents plugging...
...extraneous issue was added to the controversy yesterday morning, when the local Bow Street not-so-funnymen, always on the lookout for newspaper space, called the Boston Globe to say that "The Lampoon will agree to have the Bridge named after Technology, if Tech will dedicate its new wind tunnel to the Harvard CRIMSON...
...education to children of trappers, railway section hands and woodsmen, the Ontario Government has converted seven rail coaches into school cars, each complete with 14 desks, blackboard, library. In September the cars are coupled on to regular trains, roll out of North Bay, Chapleau, Capreol, Port Arthur and Sioux Lookout, then are shunted to convenient sidings...