Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assert that I am as great a sports fan as anyone at Harvard. I had spent more time playing sports than I had eating, attending school, seeing movies, shows, etc., reading, riding on bicycles, cars, trains, streetcars, and busses, listening to the radio, or writing until I got polio when I was 14 years old. Nor have I ceased to play sports since I recovered from my attack: only recently I was warned that my basketball playing was liable to injure my health--I took basketball as Freshman physical training while it was available. Any plan to aid athletes...
...sports, in theory anyway. Sports in college, therefore, is a diversion engaged in without animosity or dirty playing, regardless of talent. Economically favoring the athlete is prostituting that purpose. What about the boy who is refused admittance because of athlete preference? I knew a high school boy who got polio right after he was picked as the best baseball player in the diocese of Brooklyn. At least 6 feet tall, his body was conspicuously atrophied. To pick an athlete in preference to this boy, or one like him, would be to continue a time-honored American custom, viz., discriminating unfairly...
About two thirds of the tutees are taught in groups of ten at the settlement houses. "The rest are receiving individual attention either at the agencies or in their own homes," said Oettinger, "though occasionally we have exceptions like the two youngsters in the polio convalescent ward of the Childrens' Hospital we are now teaching...
Trumbull was caught by the polio scare and only played four games, Dudley was caught with a porous defense and won only one game. But the Commuters aren't so bad as their record indcates. They have a driving halfback in Dave Gillbert and a pair of good ends, and may pull an upset on the Bulls...
...Polio & Pellagra. Meanwhile, the medical school had become one of the nation's leading research centers for polio, pellagra and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The Duke physics department bristled with such nuclear names as Henry W. Newson, wartime chief physicist at Oak Ridge, and Lothar W. Nordheim, formerly of the physics division at Oak Ridge...