Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advised against it on the ground that A. G. & E. "might get the works if we appear." Mr. Hopson's lawyers in Manhattan also advised him not to go to Washington because at that time he was presenting a doctor's certificate saying he was too ill to appear before the New York Legislature's utility investigating committee in Albany...
...year and property worth a billion dollars would be the mightiest Protestant church in the U. S. Such a united church has long been the holy dream of U. S. Methodists who first attempted to make it come true by appointing a commission in 1918. Last week in Evanston, Ill., ten bishops and 40 ministers and laymen agreed upon an irenicon which they publicly hoped would result in a merger of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church which split off in 1828 because of doctrine and administration, and the Methodist Episcopal Church. South which angrily broke away...
...While Knitter John Cann was distinguishing himself in Boston last week, Canner David Hippie was likewise distinguishing himself in Chicago. A 45-year-old bachelor who runs a fruit farm near Elgin, Ill., Canner Hippie, competing with 100 women in the Cook County Fair, got first prize for a jar of his blackberry...
Since four-fifths of Cook County, Ill. consists of the city of Chicago, which has a school superintendent of its own, life in the County Superintendent's office has its dull moments. For six years those moments have been enlivened by paunchy, grey-haired Otto Aken and dapper young Noble Puffer. Up to 1933 both were assistant superintendents. When the Superintendent died a Democratic school board appointed Mr. Aken to fill out the unexpired term. But before the next election wily Noble Puffer elbowed his superior out of Democratic graces, won the nomination. Superintendent Aken accused him of falsifying...
...weeks ago, Dr. Willard said, he took an ill-tempered, 20-lb. rhesus monkey named Jekal, asphyxiated it with ether, injected sodium citrate into its veins to prevent its blood from coagulating. When the animal's breathing and circulation had stopped, a chiropractor pronounced it "dead." Then Dr. Willard popped Jekal into an icebox where the temperature was kept at - 30° C. ( - 22° F.). Five days later he removed the small, rigid, grey clump of fur & flesh from the refrigerator, invited newshawks to watch the proceedings, began to thaw it slowly in a chamber equipped with heating...