Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Queen Marie of Rumania telephoned in some agitation last week to her daughter Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. King Ferdinand of Rumania, phoned Queen Marie to Queen Marie, had suffered a relapse in his long, chronic illness (TIME, Nov. 29 et seq.). Soon a telephone operator who overheard the royal conversation started a rumor which grew and gathered, gravity until correspondents in Berlin asserted "on the highest authority" that King Ferdinand was dead...
...little as 1,000 dollars plus passage and wine costs'. Worst of all is the possibility that such men as Senator Borah may effect a renewal of relations with Russia, where divorce is only a matter of minutes, and does not even require proofs of dementia praecox, chronic alcoholism, or sadism. The Soviet might almost stabilize the trouble on the proceeds...
...Chronic critics of the new order of things will see in this possible temporary lowering of standards a veritable menace. The fact is that the new order has so resulted in a distinct increase in the number of men achieving Dean's List privileges. The new policy, in devolving greater responsibility upon the individual student and in allowing him greater personal initiative, is following the same general lines as the changes which have preceded it, the tutorial system, the general examinations, and similar innovations. It is difficult to understand why this most recent step should not achieve equally successful results...
Some men were found to have chronic digestive troubles and a few showed signs of lung trouble. A follow-up system is adhered to in the case of men whose abnormalities persist, and such cases are given close and proper treatment...
...surely chronic boredom one can't brook...