Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infectious hepatitis, which attacks the liver, is rarely fatal, but invariably puts its victims in bed for two to three months. It may be much more widespread than formerly supposed. Reason: most of the symptoms (headache, fever, vomiting) are those of influenza or any respiratory disorder, and some patients never develop jaundice (yellowing of the skin...
Some observers thought the movement, despite its peculiarly widespread character, was spontaneous. Giuseppe Lorenzini, a partisan brigade leader, declared that it had been fomented and financed by the Communist Party. Chief point of interest: were the Communists trying to organize a Tito-like partisan movement to harass the Allied rear in case of a Yugoslav move against Trieste...
...view of "serious irregularities" during the recent referendum (including widespread suppression of Vice Premier Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party-TIME, July 8), the note declared: "[The U.S.] Government wishes to emphasize its belief that, inter alia, it is essential for the carrying out of free elections that 1) all democratic and anti-Nazi parties be allowed to campaign freely without arrest or threat of arrest . . . 2) all such parties are represented on all electoral commissions, and ballots are counted in the presence of [their] representatives . . . 3) results will be published immediately ... 4) there shall be an adequate system of appealing...
...commuting students to live in University rooms becomes an anachronism. Designed originally as an attempt to make Harvard a more cohesive unit by bringing as many students as possible within the orbit of House life and to break down the isolation and discontinuity of College life caused by the widespread practice of living in "rat-houses" in order to pay one's club dues, the rule has more than justified its intention...
...with fees) deeper and deeper into the dim regions of deficiency diseases. It has also led him to major medical discoveries. Last week in Science he announced a new one with a report that folic acid, part of the vitamin B complex, was a remedy for tropical sprue, a widespread disease in such teeming, undernourished lands as Puerto Rico...