Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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According to Captain Barker, the notice is merely routine, stating something which has been known to undergraduates for a long time. It is not to be interpreted as a precedent, he said, nor as the forerunner of a general call...
...Hitler considers Mussolini "the only other great man'' and that in her opinion II Duce "felt like a nursemaid taking care of a victorious child" during some of his meetings with the Führer. Hitler, riding through Berlin beside Mussolini, according to Miss Wagner, "gave the general impression of a fussy spinster seated beside the first real man who had come...
...result of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, in which Sherman lost 2,500 men, a Union Army surgeon who lost a leg there named his next son Kenesaw Mountain Landis. "Thus," observed Biographer Henry F. Pringle, "was the blunder of General Sherman immortalized." Last week frosty old Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis saw a wish fulfilled. Baseballmen meeting in Atlanta fed him fried chicken, then stuffed him in a car, drove to Marietta, Ga., where the City Council presented him with "a little farm where I can look out and see Kennesaw Mountain...
...epidemic of influenza flared last week in California, swept into Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. Apparently the virus was brought from Hawaii, which had been hit by flu. Worried citizens feared a repetition of the great pandemic of 1918-19, but the Army's Surgeon General James Carre Magee assured them that it was not the same sort of flu. Despite the wildfire contagion, symptoms everywhere were mild. Most of the victims had only slight fever, sniffles, headache, sore limbs, backache, a tight feeling in the chest. Although Los Angeles had about 50,000 cases, only...
...Horsfall Jr. of the Rockefeller Institute made a vaccine from Influenza A and the virus which causes distemper in dogs. He hopes it will confer immunity for at least three months from all types of flu. Last week a test group of doctors and nurses in Los Angeles County General Hospital volunteered for vaccination. About 100,000 persons in selected communities throughout the U. S. have also been vaccinated. The next few weeks may provide a sure test of the vaccine, for the epidemic, already waning in the West, seemed to be moving east at week...