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Although pneumonitis, unlike the similar "true influenza" of 1918, is deadly in only a few isolated cases, Bock added, it is a very unpleasant thing to have, and it can be avoided. Students should live wisely, he said, avoid the sudden changes in temperature, such as the trip from the "fright Stadium to the warmth of a room flowing with cocktails" which so many students made last Saturday...
...students can keep up their resistance, avoiding the same things that they have been taught to avoid in order to keep from catching cold, the disease may very possibly be wiped out or considerably reduced before reaching too great proportions, he said...
Characterizing all poetry, with the exception of blank verse, as a form of self-discipline from within and without. Frost explained how great were the obligations of a poet once he had started his work. "Once an initial rhyme is made," he said, "the poet cannot avoid continuing in the same style...
...original purpose of the drive was to avoid a repetition of past years, when students had complained of being continually canvassed by charities. It was promised when the drive opened, that an immediate response would do away with the necessity for any further drives throughout the year...
Tough and wiry, he never looks quite well. In the blazer which he puts on to avoid the saluting problem when he drifts around to a cricket match at Cairo's Gezira Club, he looks something like a pale, thin gremlin. His appearance worries his friends. Lord Trenchard, Marshal of the whole R.A.F., on a visit to Middle East headquarters kept asking him: "Are you all right, Arthur...