Word: raring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theories about polio came into question: there was no close relation between temperature peaks and polio peaks; crowd-begetting holidays and fairs did not seem to give the disease any extra encouragement. Three famed bugaboos-swimming, travel and over-exertion-seemed to precede the disease only in rare cases...
...With the backing of the university and $100,000 from the Library of Congress, he and his photographer traveled more than 55,000 miles, took 120,000 feet of film (the equivalent of about 2,000,000 pages). They lugged their cameras through legislative archives, university libraries, historical societies, rare bookshops, attics, basements, law courts and Indian reservations. They unearthed and photographed early court calendars, state lunatic asylum records, governors' letters, city treasurers' reports, letters of U.S. Indian agents and manuscripts of colonial legislation (among them: the famed Massachusetts Body of Liberties of 1641 and the only perfect...