Word: transiently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst U. S. opera ever produced at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House there appeared last winter a soprano so shapely, so vividly blonde that she seemed more like a transient from Hollywood than a potential singer of real grand opera. In the Pasha's Garden was such a flaccid, sterile piece, offered such feeble opportunities, that critics would only say that Helen Jepson was unusually pretty, her smallish voice agreeable (TIME. Feb. 4). Last week in Chicago Helen Jepson was put to a stiffer test as the heroine of Thais, the role long associated there with incomparable Mary...
...WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins, asked last week about Florida's demand for Federal funds to relieve destitute transients, cracked back: "If Governor Sholtz didn't boost the climate so much, he wouldn't have a transient problem...
...state relief workers in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan were detailed to call for volunteers. Out of 6,000 applicants they picked farm families who had long been on relief, in which father & mother were young, sturdy, courageous. Early last week an advance guard of 125 single men from Federal transient relief camps in California sailed from San Francisco to spend six months clearing the land, building. Few days later the first contingent of settlers. 67 families, rolled out of St. Paul. With 380 more transients, they were scheduled to sail from San Francisco this week aboard the Government transport...
...this disease than in other acute fevers. . . . When the rash, together with fever and headache, delirium and extreme weakness, is clearly described, typhus is easily recognized; but it must be remembered that the rash in the mild, isolated endemic cases-and especially among children-may be so slight and transient that often it is not noticed at all by the physician unfamiliar with the disease. For this reason, until typhus becomes epidemic, individual cases may often remain unrecognized...
...shift in its objectives and a complete change of its center of gravity, may, as some persons believe, be highly desirable; but to bring this about by indirection and more or less unintentionally as a result of panic-stricken effort to mitigate through injudicious taxation the effects of a transient economic crisis, or as the result of a merely emotional assault upon the results of thrift and industry, would be a sorry product of our democratic society and one ruinous to some of the highest values which have been built up in our century and a half of national life...