Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Ill...
Under the yellow and white ballroom lights in Memphis' swank Hotel Peabody, 600 Southern farm folk sat ill at ease one night last week, waiting for the big moment. It came late in the evening-at 9:30 p. m. Most of the farmers' kids were already asleep when Willard C. ("Parson") Teague, chief editorial writer of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, leaned toward the microphone and drawled out the name of the landowner-sweepstakes winner for 1938 in the "C. A.'s" Plant-to-Prosper campaign. Looking completely confused and happy, grey-haired Farmer H. L. Majure...
...University of Chicago has provided a professorship for Eduard Benes-as Washington College at Lexington, Va. provided one for Lee- as soon as Czechoslovakia's last President will take it. But the tired little man was seriously ill. His ears were being treated for an ailment which has affected his sense of balance...
Chief obstacle to the well-being of these seven counties, as of the rural U. S. generally, was poor schools-dark, dirty, manned by ill-prepared teachers whose time was spread over so many classes that some pupils had only two weeks of actual instruction in a year...
...late 20s, however, even plain readers were buying a few, just as they bought a few stocks. And even printers began publishing de luxe editions. Of the whole lot, only two de luxe publishers survived Depression I: George Macy's Limited Editions Club, and Eugene Virginius Connett Ill's Derrydale Press...