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...greatest number of attacke, which reached a peak during May and June when more than 174 vessels were sunk, occured off the Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean...
Luckily it is rarely fatal, but after a week or so of acute distress a patient is usually left shaky and washed out for several weeks. The disease chiefly attacks adolescents and young adults, often in groups such as schools, colleges, Army posts. Peak of the pneumonitis season seems to be in the late fall and winter, whereas most other respiratory diseases reach their peaks in February and March...
...notorious night owl, will probably enter the ring a better man than last time. Army life has put him in the pink of condition, added 15 Ib. to his weight of a year ago (when he weighed 174 to Louis' 200). At 24, he should be at the peak of his fistic career. Always slow at getting himself into fighting shape, Louis has been hindered, not helped, by the cavalry. Used to training for six weeks or more, he may find four weeks too short to get his fill of roadwork before starting to sharpen his timing...
Arrangements are only half of the situation; you have to have good soloists in your band, even if they don't take solos. This is amply illustrated by Goodman's band at its peak. At this time he had just about the finest white soloists in the country, but his records concentrate on the arrangements and feature only scattered solos. Yet these records contain the most spirited playing any big white band has put on wax. Miller can only lay claim to Bobby Hackett and possibly Billy May as definitely first rate improvisers, although little of their work with...
...reapers and combines had gathered in the sheaves of grain. Now comes the peak time for harvesting other crops, work in which machines have not yet taken a man's place. And this fall there are bigger crops than ever in the U.S. but fewer human harvesters...