Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Birchard Rustin Hayes, 72, noted Toledo lawyer, eldest son of President Rutherford Birchard Hayes; at Toledo, of chronic stomach trouble...
...critic always be blamed for his shrewishness. Even though one grant him a disposition superior to chronic mud slinging, his provocation is immense. Before rattling off the presses, most novels have endured compression to standard dimensions of theme and plot. More than human patience would be required for the reviewer to pick out minor originalities from this stereotyped mass. After all, acidity is the best antidote for dullness...
...Study of the effects of leaded gasoline (and of carbon monoxide hazards in garages) should be continued, lest chronic degenerative diseases of unobvious character be setting in slowly...
...Splendid", would be the cry of the chronic sage, "These are my prototypes unperverted by reason, untrammelled...
TIME'S inaccuracies are chronic, flagrant and even self evident! On p. 34 of your issue of Dec. 14, you say that a rat, with a "pointed grey face" fell into a Miss Rachael Galpern's "hot soap-bath"; yet a moment later you speak of the animal as "an enormous black rat!" Squirm out of that, if you can! I suppose you will say that a "black rat" can have a "grey face...