Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loss of public confidence in the superintendent of schools is acute and widespread .. . the mayor [should] secure [his] resignation...
...approached for Allied invasion, Britain and the U.S. looked in vain to Mihailovich for a unified resistance. By 1944, wrote British former liaison officer Fitzroy MacLean last week, Tito "was carrying out a widespread and effective resistance to the Germans, and Mihailovich, however good his intentions, was not. In those days the military effectiveness of our allies was a far more important consideration than their political complexion...
Dean Sperry's faint praise of America's profuse denominationalism: "The prodigality of our American denominations is itself the sign of a widespread confidence among us in the religious possibilities of the 'everlasting here and now.' . . . If it be admitted, as it must be admitted, that such a faith is peculiarly liable to the perils of self-deception and the excesses of fanaticism, with the sad tragedies and the moral scandals which so often ensue, it still remains true that the principle is valid...
...more will postpone urgently needed therapy in the expectation that streptomycin will cure them day after tomorrow. It will not-for the drug, a distant relative of penicillin, is exceedingly scarce (cost: $24 to $50 a patient a day), and the results, however promising, do not yet warrant its widespread use. Dr. Hinshaw's great hope: that a better, cheaper drug will soon appear...
...week credited his wet nurses with a large part of the city's drop in infantile mortality, from 71.1 to 30.4 per 1,000 births during the last 24 years. Today's growing shortage he attributes to 1) prosperity, with fewer women needing the extra income; 2) widespread indifference of doctors to the priceless virtues of mother's milk (breast feeding is discouraged in many hospitals: it means more work for the staff); 3) modern fashions in motherhood -notions that breast feeding is not only a dreadful nuisance but is somehow a little vulgar...