Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lohman, a Paraguayan who used to cook at a Concepción hotel, runs the Red Wells ranch house, has become adept at buckwheat cakes, fried chicken and hot biscuits. Of Lohman's nine children, only 3½-year-old Juancito is still at Red Wells...
Flies & Freezers. Scientists still do not know how the virus is transmitted (although it has been found on flies), or why polio is a hot-weather disease (although the virus can live a year in the deepfreeze), or why it has become more severe in the last half-century, especially in countries with high living standards. They do not know why it has become less common in New England, and far more serious in Kansas and California...
...cases diagnosed and reported as polio may not be polio at all. Three researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine reported that they had isolated a virus which causes a disease like non-paralytic polio. They found it last year in so-called polio victims in several cities. Still unnamed, the disease apparently does no lasting harm...
...germ is carried to man by rat fleas. The West, in its great open spaces, has a zooful of rodents which have become infested with rat fleas, among them prairie dogs, picket-pin gophers, ground squirrels, chipmunks. The Public Health Service called the disease "sylvatic (woodland) plague." It is still bubonic, in the sense that it can cause swelling of the lymph glands of the armpit or groin, but it has become so rare that the word plague could well be dropped...
...applause that rolled across the lawns from the great wedge-shaped Music Shed at week's end was still not extravagant, but it had warmed up by several degrees. Conductor Koussevitzky had let Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra give the world premiere of Britten's Spring Symphony last month, even though he had commissioned it. Last week he was prepared to do the symphony justice himself...