Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England, Skipper Osborne's wife was ill with worry, could think of no reason for the wild trip unless he was heading for New Zealand, where his brother has a fishing fleet. A friend said he had been asked to go, that Girl Pat was bound for the West Indies where Osborne intended to sell her before seeking adventure in the U. S. Other rumors: Girl Pat was searching for buried pirate treasure; she had become a love nest, and feminine laughter rippled through the portholes. Last week as Girl Pat vanished over the horizon an amateur radio operator...
MacMuray College (Jacksonville, Ill.) Alumna Lillian Hurlburt Gist, 81, who last year earned an M.A. at Claremont College (Calif.) (Time, June 10, 1935) ... Litt.D. President Agnes Samuelson of the National Education Association ... Ed.D...
Born in Pontiac, Ill., 58 years ago, Metalman Marsh began fiddling with chemistry in a woodshed. Quitting the University of Illinois after an argument with his chemistry professor, he worked with the State Water Survey Office testing Illinois River water, later with Chicago Storage Battery Co., where he became interested in the heat resistant qualities of metal conductors. William Hoskins, a consulting chemist, let Marsh use his lab oratory after work to tinker with alloys, later took him into the firm of Mariner & Hoskins. That is where Chromel was born. Hoskins Co. was incorporated in 1908, marketing an electric furnace...
Presumably Mr. Morrison also found his fellow governors uncongenial. While a U. S. delegate to the 1933 London Economic Conference, he considered himself rather ill-used by ironic foreign correspondents of the U. S. Press. Even more did he resent the general acceptance of his Reserve Board appointment as an unvarnished political award. He went to Washington determined to demonstrate that he was more than a rubber stamp for Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles. There he ran into something worse than a clash of opinions: his New Dealing colleagues did not take him as seriously as he took himself...
...cloudy amber, produced one of the most spectacular of the sets. The squares are alternately clear and cloudy amber, with mythical Oriental gods, beasts or fishes appearing through the transparent squares. The set is reputed to have belonged to the late Dowager Empress, who kept it in the ill-fated Summer Palace at Peiping...