Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia, who has been working on a vaccine for measles. Though smallpox, rabies and yellow fever have yielded to vaccines, a dozen or so virus diseases remain to be conquered. Dr. Stokes and his fellow workers may be on the way to victory over most of them, including polio...
...Columbia was forced to cancel last week's scheduled opener with Princeton, due to suspicions of polio, this will be the third consecutive opponent to start its season against the Crimson...
Bolles received word from New York yesterday afternoon that the game could be played without danger. The Columbia Athletic Association, in a meeting yesterday morning, decided that the school's recent polio epidemic scare had been sufficiently curbed to make cancelling the game unnecessary...
Word should arrive in Cambridge by this afternoon as to whether or not Harvard's game with polio ridden Columbia this polio-ridden Columbia this weekend will be played. The Columbia Athletic Association meets this morning to make a decision on the matter...
...question of whether Columbia's polio outbreak is sufficiently under control to warrant the Lions' playing Harvard next weekend will be decided Monday morning at a meeting of the Columbia University Athletic Association...