Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some form, poliomyelitis is probably one of the commonest diseases. Current medical opinion is that nearly everybody gets it, but usually in so mild a form that it seems to be only a sick headache, or a low fever, not unlike a cold. Millions of such cases are never recognized. The lucky victim, once his system has thrown off the virus, appears to be immune to further attacks...
Carter added some blunt observations of his own: "There is actually more [racial and religious hatred] in the North than in the South . .. We never had a Bund or a Christian Front in the South ... I am ashamed of the discrimination which the Negro suffers in the South . . . But [we don't] pretend that it doesn't exist. That pretense is assiduously practiced in the North . . . The North has almost a monopoly on neurotics . . . dipsomaniacs, abnormal sex delinquents, divorced couples, Communists, crime-comics readers, [and] gin-rummy addicts...
...Burning Glass. In Hollywood, which has long since proved its theory that even a flea can be taught to act a little, Elizabeth Taylor is a sure star of the future. Never has there been a time of such opportunity. For as age has dulled dozens of bright stars, custom has staled scores more. The public-though still attentive to such screen personalities as Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Errol Flynn, Irene Dunne, Greer Garson, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Mickey Rooney, Loretta Young-no longer rushes by the millions to see a picture merely because one of them...
...enough for Hollywood any time. Elizabeth soon got her first screen kiss in Julia Misbehaves and returned it charmingly; her fan mail climbed. Some Annapolis midshipmen were suddenly moved to vote her "The Girl We'd Abandon Ship For." Some Harvard boys added: "The Girl We'll Never Lampoon...
Fabre, son of an unsuccessful innkeeper and his illiterate peasant wife, worked his way through teachers' school by hiring out as a laborer, doing odd jobs, selling lemonade at fairs. For nearly 20 years he was a professor at the Lycee of Avignon, at a salary which never came to more than $320 a year. Sacked in 1870 for letting girls come to his science classes, he supported a wife and five children for nine years by grubbing out popular science books. In the end, he saved enough money to realize a lifetime dream, buying a couple...