Word: fever
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...Louis: Excitement is mounting to a fever pitch here....At first people hugged their radios, half-confused, half-scared, but elated at the epochal portent of the struggle-elated in the sense that a fighter, once in the ring, feels exhilarated....Theater audiences sing The Star-Spangled Banner lustily, applause drowning out the last strains....Recruits swarming the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard offices-Missouri draft boards announced they can supply immediately 8,000 more draftees in Class...
...Many maladies which occur as epidemics in the U.S. are endemic (permanent) in North China. Scarlet fever smolders constantly. Also common: typhoid, diphtheria, erysipelas, meningitis, mumps, encephalitis, amebiasis (infection of the intestines by amebae...
President Pedro Aguirre Cerda of Chile was a very sick man last week. His ruddy face now had the flush of fever. As he lay in his bed in the Moneda Palace, the daily bulletins about his health spoke always of his condition, never mentioned the disease from which Don Tinto was suffering. But three of the four doctors attending him were specialists in tuberculosis...
...Death of a Traveling Salesman does extraordinary tricks with the sensations of fever and with the resonances upon a 20th-century man of fully primordial living...
...arise as a result of frequent colds, infected teeth, diseases such as pneumonia or influenza, too much swimming, may be aggravated by smoking or drinking. Said Dr. Grove: "Probably the most important single factor in the development of the chronic form of sinus disease ... is allergy." This includes hay fever, sensitivity to dust, feathers, foods...