Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio's hard, commercial breast beats a heart of gold. Listeners catch a glimpse of it in educational programs, in crises like the Ohio River flood of 1937, in more localized incidents like the epidemic in Minneapolis. There last week some 290 children were down with polio, the worst epidemic in the city's history. Thousands of others, kept indoors to escape infection, were driving anxious mothers out of their wits...
This week Governor Ellis Arnall offered $10,000 in rewards to solve Walton County's "mass murder ... one of the worst incidents ever to take place in our state...
...prices were right. Nourished by all three, the world's grainfields were blooming. Hunger might come again next year, out crop reports indicated that 1946's worst was over...
...inevitably as warm weather breeds poliomyelitis, polio breeds panic. This year's epidemic, now nearing its peak, is bad-50% greater than last year-and worst since 1934 (latest federal statistics); San Antonio, Denver and Minneapolis have been especially hard hit. But the U.S. Public Health Service has pointed out that the cases (2,596 so far) are scattered, and that the epidemic seems unlikely to take on menacing proportions...
Detroit's worst typhoid epidemic in ten years began last month after a wedding reception at the Highland Park Baptist Church. Within three weeks, 22 guests fell ill, one died. Most of their doctors failed to diagnose the illness as typhoid (a common error). When typhoid was recognized, Health Director Dr. Charles G. Barone suspected that a typhoid carrier, infected but personally immune, was to blame...