Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glimstead, trainer of St. Mary's College (Calif.) football teams (he trained Illinois and Notre Dame teams before moving west for his health), suffered from chronic asthma, result of War gassing. Though warned that crossing the mountains might kill him, he insisted on accompanying his team on its eastern trips. He was continually doubled up on the field benches with coughing fits but lighthearted, debonair in between, a constant example of courage. Long before asthma killed him he had become a tradition at St. Mary...
...that the real wit lay in their subject, in their caustic satire. If at times this becomes rather broad and slapstick, they may be excused by the fact that as a rule they stick to their knitting and produce what is a very necessary douche for America's most chronic, most virulent ailment...
...Experiment. A call for Saxons to work in "labor platoons" was sounded by the Government. The work offered, it was clearly stated, would be hard, manual. Dikes would be built along two small Saxon rivers whose chronic tendency is to overflow. No labor-saving devices would be used, labor being the project's main object. Each platoonsman would receive a wage of 50 pfennigs (12?) per day, could eat as much as he liked thrice daily, must sleep in labor platoon barracks, seeing his family only on weekends...
...chronic complaint seems to be the inability of students to take some courses in which they have a paramount interest. The inevitable conflicting of classes must favor required subjects, at the expense of voluntary attendance at unlisted classes. In the same manner, electives are often too limited in scope and considerable trouble and red tape results from an endeavor to choose an elective under the jurisdiction of another college. In many cases, students graduate from college still harboring the desire to increase their knowledge of various topics which might have been irrelevant to their programs...
...Lancet, British medical weekly, Dr. Percival Macleod Yearsley declared that William Shakespeare's death at 52 resulted from a complication of fever, typhus, typhoid paralysis, epilepsy, apoplexy, arteriosclerosis, excessive smoking, chronic alcoholism, gluttony, angina pectoris, Bright's disease, pulmonary congestion, locomotor ataxia...