Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doctors include infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis) among the respira tory diseases. So far as is known, the disease only occurs in man and he is the sole source of infection (monkeys have been infected in clinics). Transmission may occur through insects and other animal carriers, but there is no definite evidence. No organism has been isolated which has been proved to be the cause of the disease...
Personally I should prefer that the word "Army" should never occur on the same page with "Boy Scout." Youngsters who charge up a "good deed" to themselves every day (or is it three times a day?) are, in my estimation, little prigs...
...Yale, he roomed with a sober-sided boy called Donald Ogden Stewart. Charles Walker's literary interests-the Lit, Archibald MacLeish's poetry, the Elizabethan Club-doubtless helped Funnyman Stewart's Parody Outline of History, Mr. & Mrs. Haddock, etc., to occur...
...truth must be told, with amusement, finding it typically American, quaintly ungrammatical and sophomoric. Further it did not seem to be well disposed or given to amiable qualities. The conspicuous examples of the latter are too long to rewrite. However a few apt specimens of false fine writing occur in "famed," "one," "onetime" and "able." There are others as atrociously bad. Its public must be one that admires redundant simplicity...
...apparent significance. Indeed, it is not altogether an unhappy outlook to suppose that lawyers and politicians will take the affair some-what to heart and that, consequently, some slight attempt will be made to mend both the ways of court procedure and political preferment. Doubtless, too, it will occur to some analyst that the case of Judge Thayer, laboring for years under the siress of one single controversy, and likewise the case of Madeiros, seeking to make a confession which would baffle the lawyers, are good prey for psychological discussion...