Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dineen, Boston newspaperman and author of "Ward Eight" has written the script for "Misprints of 1938" lampooning prominent events and figures. In addition to Jimmy Durante and Ethel Merman, principal luminaries of "Stars in Your Eyes," many other screen and radio stars will be present...
...your new coat, or that cup you won at Camp Oolaloo in the rifle shoot, you should have put that in instead of leaving everybody to guess at it. The sentence, "labor is being babied too much here," is far-fetched and sounds like a description of a maternity ward. Finally, that terrific sentence where you wrote, "If I could get some support I won't stay out of anything," is a sheer unfounded exaggeration: promise me you didn't mean that...
...Sheed & Ward...
Moving Day. A new nation cannot be built overnight. Driven by the whip of war, the life of China began to flee west ward soon after the first shots were fired at Peking 18 months ago. Students, long the spark plugs of China's national life, were among the first to go. Whole universities, libraries and laboratories moved bag & baggage, hundreds of miles, to regions which before the war had never seen books or schools. Several institutions were set up in the new capital Chungking (''Heavenly Residence"), others went to Chengtu, Sian, Changsha and far-off Kunming...
...enough. If the infirmary was erected here, all the health facilities of the University would be unified; no longer would sick patients have a discouraging trek from 15 Holyoke Street to Stillman. The new infirmary would be infinitely superior to the present one and would obviously contain an isolation ward and the latest medical equipment...