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Choosy Virus. Poliomyelitis is weird, unpredictable. At least as old as the ancient Egyptians (whose murals showed twisted figures obviously crippled by polio), it did not become epidemic until the 19th Century. The tiny virus that causes it (one of the smallest known) attacks only nerve cells, is almost never found in the blood. The disease occurs naturally only in man; researchers have been able to reproduce it artificially only in monkeys, cotton rats and specially bred mice (by injection of certain strains of the virus). Because its symptoms-sore throat, fever, headache, nausea, muscle stiffness-are much like those...
...same as on Broadway; films are far more expensive. Those commodities that constitute the necessities of life are rationed and priced reasonably, but any luxury sells at outrageous prices, largely because of the sale tax. The average cost of a new British automobile, smaller and less powerful than the smallest Chevvy or Ford, runs about three thousand dollars. Concomitantly, wages are ridiculously low according to our standards. A skilled rayon mill weaver or wool spinning worker makes between twelve and fifteen dollars a week--wages long since vanished from the American scene...
...Weber is a zealous scholar, hunting and trapping the smallest details. He is also a zealous critic, going well out of his way to lambaste certain "modern" writers (T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, et al.) whose beliefs and techniques differ from those of Hardy...
...islands that had been a naturalists' paradise became in war a sunset home for soldiers & sailors. For the G.I., Seymour (smallest of the 16 islands of consequence, 990 miles southwest of the Panama Canal) was The Rock-the never-never land of igneous boulders and shifting red dust, the U.S. Army's beachhead on the moon...
...contemplate a settlement in which everyone was dissatisfied, yet satisfied that his dissatisfaction was balanced by that of the others, may have been a brand new idea to the Russians. At first, the smallest and vaguest deals were blown up into diplomatic triumphs. The N. Y. Herald Tribune joyously reported "the first break in the log-jam." What was it? Merely that "a private meeting appointed a committee to study a plan to postpone the [Italian] colonial question for a year...