Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cooper's purchase will also give the Braves a box-office attraction equal to their American League rivals-the Boston Red Sox' Dave Ferriss. Discharged from the Air Forces because of chronic asthma, Ferriss has thus far pitched six complete games, won them all (four shutouts) and allowed just three earned runs in 54 innings...
...This situation has the same advantage that chronic indigestion has over acute indigestion. It is not so dangerous or overwhelming, but its pains will linger longer and provide more opportunity for complaint as well as for alleviation...
...doctors are convinced that, given as much money as has been spent for research in the war against germs, they could do something about physical degeneration too. Chicago's Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer drew a moral in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "Prevention of chronic [degenerative] illness begins with . . . proper personal hygiene, right living and suitable diet ... an annual physical examination...
...newsworthy rumor slipped through Brazilian censorship last week. Latest victim of Dictator Getulio Vargas' chronic purge was Air General Eduardo Gomes, the last of the leading revolutionary liberals of 1930 to hold a high government post. He was reported to be the leader of the clandestine, anti-Vargas National Democratic Union (TIME, Jan. 1). Relieved of the airforce command which made him potentially dangerous to the Dictator, Gomes may go to Washington as a military observer...
...week by a Senate subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education after a two-year study of the state of the nation's health. The committee found that the draft-age young men were a fair sample of U.S. health generally. About one U.S. citizen in six has a chronic disease or physical impairment...