Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the book is lively and practical enough to hold most adults, 63-year-old Dr. Stimson, an ardent bird-lover, occasionally reverts to the goody-talk of pre-Parran days. Sample:
"But greater miracles [than the use of handkerchiefs] have occurred. A wonderful improvement has taken place ... regarding the practice of spitting on floors and sidewalks and in vehicles. Only those who have seen this improvement could believe it possible to influence the public in personal behaviour in so short a...
Of the cause & cure of cancer, rheumatism, influenza, the common cold, a score of other diseases, doctors know practically nothing. But there are boundaries to medical ignorance: and from time to time doctors map the little they do know. Last week appeared a convenient manual of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) which...
It was the U. S. edition of the famed International Bulletin's newest volume: Infantile Paralysis. The Bulletin, which contains the latest words of 25 world-scattered polio experts, is edited by enthusiastic Dr. William Leo Colze of Brussels, now in Manhattan. U. S. publisher and distributor is the...
¶ Polio is a cosmopolitan disease, heedless of climate, as deadly in the Arctic as on the Equator. But for some reason, more than half of all cases in the world occur in the U. S. and Canada, in the summertime. Reported cases in the U. S. from 1915 to...