Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barnum publicity, but more because of the amazing facts that were revealed, England has appointed a royal commission to examine the arms, trade, while public interest all over the world is keener than ever before. Undoubtedly this is a good thing in principle. But just as hurried and ill considered action in passing the NIRA has left its trail of troubles within the nation, so between nations, can poor understanding of the armament issues leave still heavier sears...
...last week there filed up the icy front steps of that house a procession of famed citizens. At 93 Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes lay desperately ill of pneumonia. To his solemn-faced physicians, nurses and friends, Mr. Justice Holmes growled: "It's a lot of damned foolery...
...have the honor to inform you that you have been selected for appointment as a cadet of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and you are, therefore, authorized by the Secretary of War to present yourself before a board of officers at Fort Sheridan, Ill. on the fifth day of March, before 9 o'clock a. m., for mental and physical examination...
With some surprise and no little amusement we happened upon your ill-considered editorial in Thursday's CRIMSON, exposing the decadence and corruption running rife in Harvard's elective composition courses...
Macedonia, always a hotbed of intrigue with an indescribably mixed population, is now the storm center of the civil war. Bulgaria, deprived of a Mediterranean port after the World War, is hovering over the afflicted territory like a bird of ill-omen. Turkey, Jugoslavia, and Italy undoubtedly would not resist taking a morsel of Greece if it were dangled before their eyes. The one hope that Greece has of setting her affairs without interference and loss is to enlist British support. The British watchdog, with a sentimental interest since Byron and a commercial interest antedating that, has already growled...