Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forecast publication sent July wheat at Chicago under 73? a bushel, a new low since the delivery went on the Board last September. Optimists, who had helped push wheat to $1.13 in April under combined impetus of drought and war, had taken another look at the situation. The chronic U. S. wheat surplus looked even bigger and more unwanted than usual...
Liver, Stomach, Kidneys. No one has ever proved the old contention that alcohol causes cirrhosis (hardening) of the liver. It is merely known to be very bad for those who already have cirrhosis. Although years of toping may cause chronic gastritis (inflammation of the stomach lining) and lead to cancer, most doctors still believe that small amounts of alcohol, like the old "stomachic bitters," are fine for the digestion...
...extreme cerebrotonic is introverted, inhibited, unable to "let go" easily. He is likely to have allergies, skin trouble, chronic fatigue, insomnia. "He is sensitive to noise and distractions. He is not at home in social gatherings and he shrinks from crowds. He meets his troubles by seeking solitude...
...squirrel spree forgotten, sugar was back at its humdrum ways: an industry of chronic depression, divided into a number of tough and coony political pressure groups. The U. S. consumes about 6,750,000 tons of sugar a year. The big cane importers and refiners are equipped to serve a market for 8,000,000 tons. Besides this, the relatively high-cost beet operators of the Mountain States, California and Michigan, can turn out 2,000,000 tons. Under a free economy, beet sugar would not get a smell of the domestic market until demand broke all records and exceeded...
...homeopathy spread to the U. S., where it specially flourished among the Pennsylvania Germans. Bearded homeopaths, whose only knowledge of medicine was gained by mulling over the master's German writings (Organon; Chronic Diseases, Their Nature and Homeopathic Treatment; Materia Medica Pura), traveled from village to village handing out little colored sugar pills from their shabby black bags, fighting bitter trade wars with orthodox, "allopathic" physicians...