Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World, but at least 20 times the influence. The sedate, 157-year-old Observer is only six years the junior of the hoary London Times,* and proud of its past. It missed the boat by giving the battle of Trafalgar a scant squib, but scooped the town on the outbreak of the Crimean War. In 1820 it broke the law by printing news of a trial before it was over. Fined ?500, the paper refused to pay; the law was soon forgotten...
...Vaughn charged, intended to walk out if Harry Truman's civil rights program was incorporated into the platform and if Harry Truman was nominated. He recommended, therefore, that the Mississippi delegation "not be seated." He clenched his fist, yelling: "Three million Negroes have left the South since the outbreak of World War II to escape this thing. I ask the convention to give consideration...
...only 2,165 had been reported. Three states reported more than 50 new cases in a single week: North Carolina, 131; California, 92; Texas, 89. Five citizens of Newport News, Va. petitioned Virginia's Governor Tuck to close the border with North Carolina, where total cases in the outbreak had reached...
...unobtrusive as a well-trained butler, the U.S. Public Health Service moves quietly about its job of doctoring for the nation. Unless there is some sudden medical miching malicho (an outbreak of smallpox in New York, or plague in California), the public sees little of its day-to-day workings. Yet the P.H.S. has helped improve the health of every man, woman & child in the U.S. Last week, few people noticed that the P.H.S. was celebrating its 150th birthday...
...example, when Commencement used to come on the first Wednesday of July, a total eclipse of the sun caused the Corporation to set the date a week forward. It remained there for about a century. In 1764, the exercises were limited entirely on account of an outbreak of smallpox. The longest lapse of the tradition came from 1775 to 1782, when the Revolutionary War sent the College packing to Concord, and there were no Commencements...