Word: gallick
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...Upheld a jury verdict awarding $625,000 damages to a man whose legs were amputated as a result of an infection traced to an insect bite. James Gallick, a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crew foreman, had been bitten by a "large insect" (species unknown) while working near a pool of stagnant and putrid water on railroad property in Cleveland. In his suit, Gallick held that the insect would not have been there to bite him if it had not been for the pool. The railroad's lawyers argued that the connections if any, between the water and what happened...
...Square house. At first he had a lofty ambition: not only to rid the language of impurities, but to fix it permanently. "Our language," he wrote. "for almost a century, has, by the concurrence of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which it ought to be our endeavour to recal...
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