Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time. Assistant Professor of Phonetics Marie Katherine Mason of Ohio State examined Addie Belle and reported that she now had a serious hearing impairment, was almost deaf. She had suffered so long from hysteria which had deprived her of her voice that the condition was now chronic* and there was small chance she would ever leave her solitary world and participate in normal social life...
...John D. Biggers' Unemployment Census to be Mr. Andrews' secretary, soon will be as well known to businessmen as was Hugh Johnson's "Robbie." She and Paul Sifton serve as buffers against importunate callers, coordinate the various sectors of Wages & Hours. An ex-radical and a chronic dramatist (three of his plays appeared on Broadway), Assistant Sifton is working between times on a new play...
...McLean Hospital in Waverly. Mass., after other methods had failed, two young men who studied Science and Sanity were cured in four months of chronic alcoholism...
...mobilization had cost so much that the Cabinet, with sighs of relief, blamed the increased but chronic French Treasury shortage entirely on that, and Premier Daladier set about trying to revalue the gold reserve-which was last revalued in July 1937-so as to make a "paper profit" last week of 34,500,000,000 francs ($931,500,000). The mobilization bill was footed at 12,800,000,000 francs; 4,000,000,000 was paid in cash to those who through necessity or fear withdrew their money from the savings banks when France started to "march...
...fondled Wunderkind, he sat in the Empress Maria Theresa's lap, was petted by Madame de Pompadour, spent hours playing private concerts for England's demented music-loving George III. But chronic improvidence and a generous nature gradually brought him into a tangle of debts and grinding responsibilities...