Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Martha Blume, activities director at the North End Union, claims that the "turnover among this high school group is naturally large. Most of the youngsters drop out as soon as they pass their courses, but every time report cards come out a swarm of parents descend, on as with their flunking children...
...against nature's banes, scientists also had a victory to report...
...Lawson Veterans Administration Hospital in Atlanta, report Dr. William J. Senter and two colleagues in the current American Journal of Medicine, Noles was found to have kala-azar, a disease unknown in the U.S. until just before the war. Some symptoms of kala-azar are like those of malaria, but the invading parasite is different: a protozoon named Leishmania donovani. Once diagnosed, the disease is easily treated with daily injections of ethylstibamine, an,antimony compound. Noles went home after six weeks, pronounced cured...
...like stink." Answering Vansittart for the government, Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor, brought cheers when he announced that the government was setting up a committee to consider changes in the law which made Tass libel-proof. To illustrate Tass's mendacity, Viscount Jowitt read a Tass report in Moscow's Literary Gazette of how Londoners "supplement their starvation rations ... On Sundays, armed with guns and traps, [they] set out for the suburbs to hunt wild rabbits, starlings, squirrels, hedgehogs and polecats." Viscount Jowitt offered a ?5 prize for every polecat found in the suburbs-"so long...
...runs the Harvard Report on General Education in a Free Society...