Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between examinations and study swimming. The University pools were continually filled and in Westmorly it was said that the janitor had to spend most of his time keeping unauthorized persons from utilizing the facilities reserved only for students in the dormitory. The Charles was popular despite a slight typhoid scare and the two boat-houses provided, swimming, diving and dressing places for numbers of hot, tired students...
...Philadelphia, department stores, hospitals, police cooperated with the medical authorities in establishing zones of isolation. Vaccination proceeded widely and apace. In Washington, the scare penetrated to Capitol Hill and newspaper accounts featured U. S. Senators hastening to bare their arms to the needle; Secretary of the Interior Work (who before taking office was a physician, onetime President of the American Medical Association) vaccinating himself; the President submitted quietly to the general precaution...
...Papers of The New York World type): "Chapman had a long criminal record, was dangerously adroit at fleeing justice. We were out to get him. Publicity for the countrywide network of detection that finally caught him at Muncie, Ind., would scare other super-crooks, of which the underworld is full. Hammer, hammer, hammer on that! Besides, our readers like a sensational murder trial now and then, reported ably and with just a trifle less color than the yellow press lays on. We serve the public what it wants in a way we think we can prove is good...
...good actress; but if she is worth $1,000 a day. ... In this adventure, she cooperates with Jack Pickford in the construction of a power plant for the citizens of Rainbow Falls. There is at one point a fairly ingenious sequence stolen from the recent end-of-the-world scare...
...succession of frustrations. Leora's effort for a child was abortive. Arrowsmith's country practice in her home town - Wheatsylvania, N. D. - was satisfying (despite her puny relatives) until he indulged in research to cure a cattle-plague gratuitously, and was over cautious concerning a smallpox scare. The research aroused unbearable little professional jealousies. The pox turned out chicken, not small, and left raillery behind it. So again he cleared out, seeking his chance with a very modern, very shrewd private clinic in Chicago. Such clinics deal in fads, however, not in facts. He was sidetracked again - until...