Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held at bay until the end. His fatal illness first neared him in 1919 during his nationwide tour, speaking in favor of the League of Nations. After a speech at Pueblo, Col., on Sept. 25 of that year, he was exhausted and in a deep perspiration. He went to bed. During the night Dr. Grayson was summoned. The President showed the unmistakable signs of approaching paralysis - drooping muscles of the left side of the face, a tendency for saliva to escape from the lips. The doctor ordered him to return to sleep and declared that the speaking trip must...
According to the third annual hospital number of the Journal of the American Medical Association, there are now 6,830 hospitals in the U. S., as compared with 6,152 in 1920. The total bed capacity is 755,722. Since 1906 the number of hospitals has more than doubled. The largest increase has been in hospitals of from 25 to 50 beds...
...first time an administrative will consider the problem of unemployment from a human point of view"; to break any trusts which he found increasing the cost of building material and so hampering a solution of the housing problem. He could not understand, he said, "how people could go to bed and pray to a common Father with the knowledge that in the East End of London men, women, young men and maidens, are all huddled together in one room tonight, while there are homes, socalled, that have no cheery, comfortable, fireside; while there are places in which young...
...names of sufficient repulsiveness to apply to nuisances and wrong-doors of every kind. If one is plagued by cigarette borrowers, one can wreak one's vengeance by calling them "ciggabars" or "gottabutts". Or if one's room mate insists on leaving the bath-room door open when the bed-room window is up, one might effectively insult him with the epithet "atmophile", or even in extreme cases "aerodome". The possibilities of this sort of thing are really unlimited. Mr. King little knows what potent forces he has unleashed...
Alvaro Obregon evading his bed...