Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institution for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis, and a place for convalescence under medical supervision. Not to be confused with sanitarium, a health resort...
...Michael, the doyen of all Bloomsbury felines, was quite as proud and pompous as the gloomy edifice he guarded. Residents of Bloomsbury, whose suspicion of strangers is chronic and world-famed, reminded each other last week that "Old Mike" spoke to nobody, and would only allow two people to pet him: his owner, the official gatekeeper, and that eminent Egyptologist Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Hiley's Elegy on Cat Mike treats of this in the stanza: He cared for none - save only two: For these he purred, for these he played, And let himself be stroked, and laid...
...Gatos, Calif., children actually live like citizens. After a two-week campaign, the upper students elect a mayor, a police commissioner, a labor commissioner. Violators of community regulations are turned over by the police to the labor commissioner who makes them work. Thus, since Montezuma, like all schools, has chronic and clonic law-violators, a student-built gymnasium was erected. Last week, in Worcester, Mass., Clark University's Dr. Vernon Jones (psychologist) revealed a new method of teaching sound citizenship to future citizens. The plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment...
...Scotland, is 85 years old, works from 12 to 16 hours a day, operates the Dollar Line, largest privately owned U. S. fleet? Famed too is Amadeo Peter Giannini, though his banking reputation has not invariably included the facts that he is a Papal Knight, that he suffers from chronic neuritis, that he does not approve of private offices. But with Dollar, with Giannini, the list of San Francisco financiers is only begun...
...president of the New York Academy of Medicine and hence a quasi-national personage, Dr. John Augustus Hartwell last week assumed boldness and denounced the profession's chronic evil- fee-splitting. The practice of medicine has become so complex that the general practitioner must usually call in a specialist for many services which formerly he did himself. The patient pays two fees, usually (in Manhattan and other large communities) $10 to the family doctor, $35 to the specialist. And usually the specialist secretly rebates a few dollars to the small doctor who called him into consultation. Fee-splitting...