Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the U.S. Public Health Service last week came a warning: diphtheria is on the rise. The number of cases, 10,335 so far this year, was not alarming, but it was some 2,500 above the recent norm, reversed a 25-year trend...
Officials think the rise may be due to 1) a slackening in immunization, 2) an increase in vulnerability among young adults (many recent diphtheria deaths have been among returning G.I.s). By Army figures, about half of those in the 19-to-30 age group are susceptible. Their immunization is a problem because diphtheria inoculations often make grownups seriously...
...institute's goal: to make its patients almost completely independent, able to go anywhere under their own power. Par scores: 15 minutes to dress; 7½ minutes to put on a brace; one minute to get out of bed or rise from a chair; 30 seconds to open and close a door. To graduate, institute patients must also be able to go up or down three steps in one minute, enter a bus in ten seconds, cross a 48-ft. street in 20 seconds (before the traffic light changes...
Actually, the old battle of hold-the-line v. take-ceilings-off was now over. What Congress had provided for was a new way of tackling the problem of inflation by permitting prices to rise without limiting the amount but strictly limiting the speed of increase. How well this policy would work remained to be seen...
...coup backfired, as Li Lisan had predicted. The Chinese proletariat did not rise in support of the Canton Soviet. Instead, Chiang Kai-shek's troops quickly mopped up the insurrectionists...