Sentence examples for polio epidemic from inspiring English sources

During a polio epidemic in New Haven in 1943, Dr. Horstmann pitched in.

A1 Polio Epidemic in Africa West and Central Africa are on the brink of the largest polio epidemic in recent years, as polio cases surge in Nigeria and the virus spreads to other countries.

Roth's novel evokes the terror of the polio epidemic that swept the writer's hometown of Newark in the 1940s.

During the Great Depression, money was desperately needed to run the foundation as the polio epidemic worsened.

But the sickness and death caused by a renewed polio epidemic in South Asia would make today's tragedy seem small.

When a polio epidemic takes hold, the playground itself is engulfed in "a war of slaughter, ruin, waste, and damnation".

The troupe chartered a bus and arrived in Tulsa, Okla., in the midst of a depression and a polio epidemic.

A polio epidemic is at the centre of Nemesis (2010), set in Newark, New Jersey, in 1944.

This autumn brings us "Nemesis", a story about a polio epidemic during a hot Newark summer in 1944.

Although his childhood was marked by the polio epidemic, a historic custody battle, and the Great Depression, Dick was not.

It's the summer of 1944 in Roth's suspenseful novel, and a polio epidemic has taken hold of a Newark neighborhood.