Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Epidemiological Bloodhounds. Most promising of the venereal fighters' new lines of attack is a patient, widespread attempt to trace each infection to its source. The agents: nurses, social workers and doctors, who are known as "epidemiological investigators" or "contact tracers." They have found that more than half of the patients who turn up for venereal treatment can be persuaded, with tactful handling, to name their contacts. The investigators can sometimes trace the spirochetes back through a complex transmission line (see cut). More effective than the shotgun technique of mass blood tests, contact tracing has helped venereal fighters to identify...
...Morning has enough to satisfy the hard core of Wodehouse readers (the average, annual P. G. W. novel sells 10,000 copies in the U.S.). But it has only a trace of real mirth for those who believe that in spasmodic moments of his heyday, Wodehouse was one of Britain's most talented comic writers...
...Edna, declared the ancient (seventyish), roly-poly Messiah, was reincarnated the spirit of his first wife, Mother Divine, who died a few years ago. "Trace your thoughts back to what Mother said," Father urged his sheep. "She wants everybody to love me. . . ." Also, this was a spiritual deal-"not the marriage of a natural...
Simplicity is the enema keynote in the Atomic Age. Best ingredients: "plain lukewarm water, or perhaps just a trace of bicarbonate of soda or ordinary salt." Warns Dr. Lieberman: "Soap is a very popular ingredient now, unjustly so, because in most cases it is unnecessary and irritating...
...sages have a hundred maps to give That trace their crawling cosmos like