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Furthermore, Ulen has lost the services of Duke Geer, a 440 regular last year, and Stu Ogdon, a developing sprinter; both have been forced off the team by chronic health conditions...

Author: By Thomas Linden, | Title: Swimming Team Favored in Meet Against Big Red | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

...common aspirin might have been expected to suffer a decline. But instead, doctors say that use of aspirin is steadily on the rise (the U.S. alone consumes 42 million tablets a day). One of its chief uses: treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, one of the nation's commonest chronic illnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Super-Aspirin | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...Chronic Shortsight

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

Probably the best explanation for this chronic shortsight is simply that a studying undergraduate is an awfully dull subject. A student closing his book of Greek paradigms is far less interesting than one who goes to the club to break beer bottles, or one who goes down to the field to slap backs

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

...With practically a lifetime as a chronic alcoholic, and drinking enough beer and whiskey to float a boat, I do not now care for the stuff...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Teleologic Processing | 11/29/1955 | See Source »

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