Word: transients
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...epidemic of meningitis among 12,000 seamen recruits, and they were confident that they were doing just what was needed to guard against another attack. They issued mountains of sulfadiazine tablets, and ordered everybody on the base to take two a day. The dosage was supposed to clean out transient meningococci, the microbes that cause this form of inflammation of the brain covering. But for five weeks, sporadic new cases of meningitis kept cropping up. The Navy flew in Dr. Harry A. Feldman, the nation's top authority on the meningococcus, and the specialist from Syracuse, N.Y., ran blood...
...University commented after buying the hotel on Wednesday that it was not "equipped to handle the day-to-day operation of a hotel." The management of the Ambassador immediately terminated its transient room service and refunded the deposits of all those who had made reservations after...
...seven-story brick hotel has 90 residential apartments and 24 transient rooms. According to hotel sources, the transient rooms are being cleared immediately and no more guests will be accepted in them...
...University official said last night that the transient rooms were being closed because "Harvard University is not equipped to handle the day-to-day operation of a hotel." The official also noted that the Ambassador's public dining room will be shut immediately...
...studies singing, piano and music theory, attends modern-jazz dancing classes five mornings a week ("It makes me feel as if I had soap bubbles for shoes"), and "dabbles in watercolors and short stories." Says she solemnly: "The lives of actors are centered round such transient things. What career can replace the total growth within the self?" She lives in an old clapboard house in Beverly Hills, spends most of her between-class hours walking alone through the woods, her evenings listening to her 1,000-record collection or playing chess with a friend. "Yvette has this kind of relationship...