Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...until there was a need for them in the labor market rather than to turn them out, with or without money, to shift for, themselves? Some action must be taken without delay, not only to relieve those already desperate from lack of employment, but to prevent the situation becoming chronic through constant additions to the over supply of labor. Curtailment of demobilization, except in special cases, seems to be the remedy most needed to alleviate the situation...
...great fault, however, these chronic iconoclasts overlooked. The main business of colleges is teaching; not teaching; this or teaching that, but simply teaching. The colleges ask what is to be taught, and having been informed, they get the best men to be had in the world and teach as no other force can do. And so when war became upper-most in the minds of the American people, the colleges took up their torches to proceed in that direction. It was a new subject, but the business of teaching was as old as the hills. They immediately sought those...
...Chemical Colloquium. "The Hydrolysis of Chronic Salts," by Professor Lamb. Coolidge Memorial Laboratory...
...relations with Mars are always a subject of interest. When the weather, politics and the war have been drained dry, and nothing remains but a yawn to fill the gap of conversation; when the last conversationalist has chronic lock jaw and the last small talker is asleep, the trend of talk may turn on Mars. Mars is always safe...
...Lecture on "Chronic Indigestion." by Dr. F. W. White, M.D. '95, at Medical School...