Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parents who have to stand on a curbstone for hours so that their saucer-eyed brood may catch a glimpse of the first gaunt & gasping runner plodding along Commonwealth Avenue, and for motorists who are forced to detour all around town, the Marathon is a notorious nuisance. But for chronic gawps, students of foot racing and officials of the Boston Athletic Association (who sponsor the run), it is a great event...
This statement without explanation tends to be misleading. Experimental studies indicate that chronic irritation alone does not cause cancer, but that chronic irritation plus some other factor in the body may cause cancer...
...million persons in the U. S. who suffer from hay fever, asthma and assorted allergies, came welcome news last week as two researchers offered promising clues to the treatment of these chronic ailments...
...alarmed view taken last week by most Business spokesmen toward Harry Hopkins as Secretary of Commerce was that, as a chronic social worker and economic planner, he might devise ways-in cahoots with his trust-busting fellow Janizary, Robert Houghwout Jackson, who seems likely to succeed Attorney-General Homer Cummings in January-of fastening new Federal controls upon Business. An entirely different view was expressed by Journalist David Lawrence, one of Business' most alert and alarmable servants. He wrote...
...Although the flexible gastroscope is an aid to the X-ray rather than a substitute for it, it enables a properly-trained physician to discover tiny ulcers and tumors which have just begun to grow and cannot be detected by Xray. The gastroscope has also demonstrated the frequency of chronic inflammation of the stomach...