Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press, Radio is a chronic plague, and news broadcasting its most annoying symptom. Last week painful pangs were felt in Pittsburgh, and the Press once more wondered where to look for a cure...
...Hopkins definition of unemployables is "all chronic dependents," including the aged, the sick, the crippled, the insane, widows. They constitute about 20%, of the 19,000,000 persons now on relief. But last week's move will not lighten the Federal burden by 20%. because many a state and city is already caring for its unemployables...
...consummated, frantic Nazis abruptly split the two companies they had merged into five. "The reason is," explained Realmleader Hitler's Shipping Commissioner Essberger, "we have found that it is the large German shipping companies which have suffered most. So we must have more small companies." With his chronic German inferiority complex telling him how silly this must seem abroad, Commissioner Essberger blazed: "It makes no difference what foreigners say about our program...
...have a big name, the editors won't even look at your manuscript. . . . Why, there's better stuff rejected every day, than what gets into print. . . ." As to every editor who ever bought a piece of fiction, that chronic complaint of obscure authors came again & again to Editor Sumner Newton Blossom of American Magazine. He knew it to be nonsense- or nearly so. He knew that the 30,000 unsolicited stories that arrive annually at his offices were treated is fairly as possible. They went in turn to a bright young woman, to an elderly cultured...
...rehabilitating the Depression-blasted regions of South Wales, Northern England and the Scottish Clydebank. "While most parts of the country now have a feeling of hope and confidence," said Chancellor Chamberlain, ''there remains in the depressed areas an atmosphere of stagnation and listlessness which arises from a chronic condition of poverty and privation...