Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disease detective in New York's Westchester County, Dr. Gilbert Dalldorf was called in on many a late-summer and early-fall epidemic of what seemed to be mild polio. Few victims suffered paralysis, and all recovered, often with startling rapidity. In a 1942 outbreak in White Plains, Dr. Dalldorf saw what he calls "the footprints of other viruses," but it took him five years to track down the particles. From patients with similar illnesses in the Hudson River town of Coxsackie (pop. 2,800), Dr. Dalldorf isolated a hitherto unknown virus. The Coxsackie virus thus put the town...
Pitching in Venezuela last winter, Sherry learned from Old Dodger Pete Reiser how to throw a slider, this summer finally conquered his control. Even so, Sherry had an unimposing 6-7 record at St. Paul in July when the Dodgers took a chance by bringing him up. But Rookie Sherry developed confidence under the pressure of the Dodgers' hard drive for the pennant, compiled a 7-2 record in the National League. "When I come in from the bullpen," he said, "nothing bothers...
High Pressure. Meteorologists have a more prosaic explanation. There have been almost twice as many hours of sunshine this year in France as in normal years, apparently because of a high-pressure area in the Canary Islands that pushed the normal summer storms southward. Thus the northern vineyards enjoyed a season of incomparable warmth, free of the violent hailstorms that slash the vines and bruise the grapes. At the same time there has been enough moisture in the ground to keep the vines fresh. "The leaves are still green as we pick," says one grower. "This means a glycerine content...
...very strong terms, it was not carried through, perhaps because Harvard felt that it was already in the midst of one major experiment--the General Education program. However, this proposal too would have done little to ease the position of teachers; the problem of full use during the summer would have remained untouched...
...these programs for giving students a chance to learn during the summer fail to solve the real problem: until the summer session is compulsory, only a minority of students will attend, and a third of the year will still be wasted. A few students who want extra learning will not make up for the majority who are content to stay with the old schedule. Only a radical approach like the four-quarter program seems likely to break through the inertia and provide the efficiency, economy, and opportunity which the more conventional proposals seek to duplicate...