Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poliomyelitis. Next month the greatest scourge of childhood, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), will make its yearly descent on the U. S. To parents who are nervous about bringing their children to the New York World's Fair, Dr. John L. Rice, New York City Health Commissioner, was reassuring: "In the years 1937 and 1938 the incidence of the disease was very low and this year, up to the present time, it is even lower. No one can predict the future of poliomyelitis accurately, but based on our present knowledge, no one need fear infantile paralysis in New York City this...
...left suffrage work after three years to take a copywriting job in a Manhattan advertising agency. She hated that, too, and went to Cincinnati to help start an experiment in preventive medicine. Her employers sent her back to New York and the next thing she knew she was in love. When that seemed to be turning out badly she ran away to Europe, as everybody...
...whiz promotion scheme to needle circulation, Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine named one Isabel Caldwell McDougal of Greenwood, Miss., "Miss Cosmopolitan." Next issue Cosmopolite Faith Baldwin, one of the judges, twittered: "She hasn't an atom of classic beauty but she's as pretty as spring in the South. . . . She has a certain pixie charm hard to define. She reminds me a little of Helen Hayes...
...Baldwin's unfilled orders come from its hedges against bad locomotive business. Of this, Mid-vale's $18,500,000 backlog adds up to the biggest single lump, 73%. Its presiding genius, handsome, abstemious Dr. Harry L. Frevert, lives from one ballistic test to the next, his only concern the race between armor-piercing shells and shellproof armor...
Putting the new rates in effect this month, to step up this summer's vacation and World's Fair travel, the cautious Easterns announced they would try them until next January, will continue them if, as plainly indicated by past experience, they work...