Word: ruralization
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Measles is transmitted by a tiny virus which was made visible under the microscope in 1937 with a stain called nigrosin. Last year a successful vaccine was announced. It will be useful to protect boys going into the Army from remote rural districts, where they have never had measles or acquired natural immunity. Many such boys in World War I died of pneumonia, brought on by measles...
...colored sand into place in old whiskey bottles with the aid of a hatpin. Experts pronounced Sugden's sand paintings equal to the best of their kind produced by the Hopi Indians of the southwest U. S. Farmer Sugden was not at the show. A man of rural tastes, he farms the land he was brought up on, expects to die on it, has not visited Madison, or any other city, in 20 years...
Such is Cash's basic Southerner. On this man two influences converged: the South's own aristocrats and the Yankee. From the aristocratic ideal he perfected the famous Southern Manner, which at its best is as genuine a courtesy as the world can show; his rural individualism was sharpened into a violent sense of personal Honor. In some Southern types the result was "a great cleanness and decency . . . one of the most pleasant things that ever grew up on American soil." But under the political and moral pressure of the Yankee this sense of honor became incandescent...
...subordinate once told a rural school supervisor that Mr. Rockwell "wanted us to go out and preach the sharing of the wealth...
...Stires has had many a great year in the 50 since he was priested. His first charge was rundown, rural St. John's Church at West Point, Va., where in a year he paid off a heavy debt, boosted the communicant list from 13 to 100. In 24 months he had calls from 28 parishes, finally accepted a call from the Church of the Good Shepherd, Augusta, Ga. There he stayed just long enough to meet and marry Sarah Hardwick. (Said he on his 40th wedding anniversary: "I believe the Lord sent me there so I could find...