Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Railways have replaced neither worn-out rails nor worn-out rolling stock. Accidents increase. Matsumoto-san, the Japanese man-in-the-street, shaves in the morning with a dull razor (blades are scarce), rides to work on an overcrowded charcoal-burning bus (motor fuel is rationed), climbs long flights of...
To millions of Catholics who had long awaited guidance, to statesmen who cocked careful ears on both sides of the battle lines, Pope Pius XII last week broadcast his first solemn pronouncement on basic social issues-the rights of the individual v. the growing power of the State; the equitable...
The unfortunate fact is that those diverted from English A fall naturally into A-I, a soporific composed of fellow sufferers, incompetents seeking rest and a C, and Seniors in Science. The course is a large one and growing. A spring renovation and shaking out of mothballs could male it...
Thus last week, in the overcrowded obituary column of the Times, smart Londoners read with regret of the end of "Little Fortune," the genial and popular headwaiter who for years had greeted them at banquets at the Savoy. A short, bald, smiling man, he looked not unlike Benito Mussolini. But...
Some of them know medical students who may be drafted too. What a waste of resources when 33 percent of the draftees were rejected for poor health, with our hospitals understaffed and overcrowded. And I remembered that 58,000 soldiers died of disease in the last war, most of them...