Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field of concentration. A careless choice has much the same effect as groping in the dark, and is the greatest danger of all. A student who realizes his mistakes and changes his fields at the end of his Sophomore year has lost many months of work and is consequently ill-prepared for his later examinations. Concentration-on-approval for the last few months of the Freshman year would enable the student to judge from experience the choice he has made before any real loss has been suffered...
When Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. was 9 he could lift his 150-lb. father. By last week Robert Wadlow, 18, had become the biggest man in the world, but he could not lift even his small brother (see cut). He stands 8 ft. 3¾ in., weighs 390 Ib., wears size 39 shoes ($86 a pair). During the past year he gained 2 in. in height, continues to grow, may not reach his full growth until...
...Goshen, Ind. druggist, he was a Butler vice president & director before he was 33, was made president in 1918, the same year his only son was killed in France. Mr. Cunningham has established a Yale scholarship in his son's memory in the high school of Evanston, Ill., where he lives, helped build a War memorial in Thiaucourt, France, where his son fell. The directors of Butler Brothers also replaced the Thiaucourt chimes, which had been destroyed by German gunfire...
Busy is the Federal Trade Commission in detecting unfair and monopolistic practices in U. S. industry. Last week it cracked down on American Character Doll Co. of Manhattan. Advertisements had pictured a waterproof doll, called "Sally Jane," immersed in a jar of water without any ill result. An unnamed, ordinary doll was shown in a similar underwater position, in a state of disintegration. Saying that dolls in general are not supposed to be "amphibian," the Federal Trade Commission resented the pictures as an unfair, competitive slur on the landlubber doll, ordered American Character Doll to show cause why it should...
When examined carefully, the offers of the Reich government all bear the familiar ear-marks of the proverbial gift-horse. Frankly, all have that hollow ring; the appearance of flimsy subterfuge; the look of ill-disguised bad-faith. France must assume a stern, unyielding attitude at once if she is to preserve her prestige, and retain the support and alliance of the Soviet. Germany must be faced now and beaten in this desperate gamble, for in five or ten years time, she, and not France, will be once more the King-pin on the European alley...