Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remedial Medicine and the "body-despising" ideals of Christians and Feminists. Says he: "There is no such thing today as a guilty conscience about bodily depravity. ... A clean mouth full of natural teeth, firmly set in unimpaired gums; a clean fresh tongue, not even slightly furred by incipient chronic indigestion; a sweet breath and the natural fragrance of a healthily functioning body?who knows love as Nature intended him to know it if he has not known these things? How many modern men and women can know love in this form ?" Counters Mrs. Russell: "Was love more delightful, then...
...something else which accompanies the virus when it makes an infection he calls "the specific factor." It is found in extracts from tumors. It may act as an irritant (for chronic irritation is known to promote cancer) or in some similar matter...
...coal industry, which has had to discharge 67,100 men since last November is in a chronic state of depression , France and Italy as coal customers have disappeared; for reparations coal from Germany and the coal from the now functioning Lens mines in the north of France supply all their needs. Furthermore, the use of oil, lignite and other low-value fuels is beginning seriously to affect coal consumption...
...chronic religious conflagrations, western New York was then known as the "burnt over" district. Brigham lent ear to all itinerant moralizers, faith to none. Said he: "I saw them get religion all around me. Men were rolling and bawling and thumping." At 23, "to prevent being any more pestered," he became a Methodist...
...significance of it all is that there exists a dissatisfaction, partially chronic but entirely justified, as to the present status of Education at Harvard. The teaching staff, remembering its own sacrifices for an education, is likely to regard the absence of the will to learn on the part of the undergraduate as the fundamental factor vitiating an otherwise fairly efficient and adaptable educational system. On the other hand the average undergraduate brought face to face with a great machinery that tends to impose a certain orthodoxy upon his fields of mental activity, so classify and label him, to assign...