Word: taftã
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Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1917, Taft came to the United States at age five when her father accepted a research position in Ashville, Tenn. The family later moved to Boston where Taft??€™s father, Louis Dienes, served as chief bacteriologist...
...while studying in New Haven, she contracted tuberculosis and was treated at Gaylord Sanatorium in Connecticut. Her brother Louis Dienes hypothesized that working long hours around sick patients had weakened Taft??€™s resistance...