Word: scar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sudden transformation by elimination of the mining-camp excavations, the derricks and littered side-walks? Years have now elapsed since the city's streets have been in anything like normal condition, although originally we were assured that the "cut-and-cover" method of excavation would leave scarcely a scar on their fair surface. We have grown accustomed to chaos, to climbing up temporary stairways, winding through improvised galleries, or hurdling over a zone of desolation like that in France. If the change proposed be made too suddenly, average New Yorkers will need a pocket guide to find their way around...
Experience with typhoid vaccine has shown conclusively its preventive value. The treatment is comparatively simple consisting of three hyperdermic injections of the vaccine at intervals of a week. No scar is left as in the case of vaccination for smallpox...
Such a happy attitude would be far less prevalent if there existed more generally a truer and fuller conception of the real significance of a habit formed. "Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so small scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for each fresh dereliction by saying, "I wont count this time." Well, he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it, but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibres, the molecules are counting it, registering and storing...