Exceptional Historic Uses
- During the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918, so many people were dying that steam shovels were needed to dig the mass graves.
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“The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.”
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