Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kicking off the 1949 campaign, Chicago got its chance to remind its citizens that it had pioneered in bringing the fight against VD into the open. Its publicity-loving Health Commissioner, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, once dragged in Al Capone's girl friend for a blood test. He still tacks up syphilis quarantine signs himself, with the butt of a pistol, on any tavern which refuses to send its bar girls in for tests. Pointing to Chicago's syphilis rate, which has dropped 45% against a national drop of 37%, Bundesen boldly boasts: "Chicago is the safest place...
...refused to write under wartime censorship. Then, last November, a severe stroke (cerebral hemorrhage) left the 68-year-old gadfly partially paralyzed and stilled his buzzing. But not entirely. Even as he was brought to a halt, his latest book was in the printer's hands. It will remind old readers and explain to many a new one why the cigar-chomping, beer-guzzling Sage of Baltimore has been the most effective irritant in U.S. writing history...
...have to remind this audience that this is the traditional Harvard position and will be maintained in the face of whatever criticisms may come...
...institution. But with this single exception which is the unique product of our century, I maintain that a professor's political views, social philosophy or religion are of no concern in the University; nor are big activities within the law as a private citizen. I do not have to remind this audience that this is the traditional Harvard position and will be maintained in the face of whatever criticisms may come. Admittedly a university might be faced with a difficult problem if some member of the permanent staff should suddenly announce that he was a full fledged member...
...fragile to bear. What happens out on the snow-covered range is more successful and easily the most exciting part of the book. In a first-rate section of more than 100 pages, Curt's pursuit of the cat becomes a thriller with symbolic moral overtones that will remind some readers of Moby Dick. The cunning of the cat, the cold, the lack of food, the growing image in Curt's mind of the panther as the embodiment of sinister evil and vengefulness, change the hunter into the hunted. After three numbing days & nights, the weakened, frightened, half...