Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Linnea stitched up two dresses for her sisters, sucked her last lollipop, quietly lay down and died. "Chronic malnutrition killed her," said Dr. George Potts Olcott Jr., Assistant Essex County Medical Examiner. "The autopsy performed showed no reason for starvation. Her condition was perfect but she just wouldn...
Commonly known as chronic infantile paralysis, this rare, creeping disease is a complete mystery to doctors. It attacks the grey matter of the spinal cord, slowly lays waste all muscles controlled by the diseased cord. First to degenerate are the tough fibres in the ball of the thumb. Gradually the other fingers shrivel into a typical "clawhand." Then the arm muscles slowly waste away. After the disease has been intrenched for many years, a patient may lose control of his trunk, face and leg muscles. At the end, he may be little more than skin & bone...
...patient had been addicted [to narcotics] before he came to me, mainly because he was suffering from three chronic ailments. . . . Although Fred Barrick was an addict he was a chronic, continually sick man; however, when relieved [by morphine] he was of phenomenally acute, alert, clear and competent mentality. . . . I believe I am right and loyal to my profession in relieving him or anyone . . . if thereby I can save him to some useful purpose. . . . The extraordinary tolerance the man had for gluttonous dosage [often 20 grains a day] was . . . so marvelous that his case deserves my future recording...
Russia has no strike troubles (workers who strike have a way of disappearing the same night), but the Russian peasant is the Kremlin's chronic headache. His food is needed to feed the proletariat, his sons are needed for the Red Army. Even collective farms have failed to turn the mulish muzhik into a village Bolshevik. Wily as any Communist, the peasants long ago wrung from the Kremlin permission to till personal plots on collective farms, sell their produce in the open market...
Professor Hansen claimed that an outlet must be found for the nation's savings in expansion add new construction to avoid chronic unemployment...