Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The U.S. death rate set an alltime low in 1948, the National Office of Vital Statistics reported last week. There were 1,444,337 deaths-i.e., 9.9 per 1,000 population, compared with 10.1 in 1947 and 10.0 (the previous low) in 1946. Markedly lower were deaths in childbirth...
A lot of old 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...
During the next twelve months, nearly 900,000 pilgrims are expected to visit Italy. "There will come together . . . " said the Pope in his annual Christmas message, "those to whom it was commanded to sow death and those who suffered the terrifying effects of these commands . . . We believe that these thousands...
But last week England's Bishop Stephen C. Neill, an associate general secretary of the council, had something to say about the question: "The World Council of Churches has received no official notification that the Greek Church intends to diminish its participation. We are well aware that there are...
There was a long pause and then a calm, matter-of-fact answer: "All right."