Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Ill...
Three years ago Gericke befriended a roving photographer named Arthur G. Pillsbury. After taking many pictures of hydroponic plants, Pillsbury became so engrossed in the subject that he went to Evanston, Ill., enlisted the interest of a truck-body manufacturer, a hosiery executive, a lawyer, a banker. Then he went back to Berkeley, asked Gericke for technical information. The scientist flatly refused. Pillsbury then turned to the dean of the College of Agriculture who gave him a pamphlet, available to anyone who asked for it, containing some information on temperature, formulae, aeration, etc. Pillsbury and his associates were incorporated...
...more prosperous levels. They lay themselves open to charges by patriotic Southerners that a similar investigation of lower-stratum existence in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, might produce equally humiliating results. Meanwhile, You Have Seen Their Faces stands as eye-witness evidence that there are indeed many U. S. citizens ill-clad, ill-nourished and ill-housed...
...Negro Henry Armstrong, 24, has been recognized as champion in California since he knocked out the New York State Athletic Commission's Champion Mike Belloise, although the Commission still recognized Belloise because his bout with Armstrong was scheduled for ten rather than 15 rounds. Thus when Boxer Belloise, ill in The Bronx, was persuaded to exchange his championship claim for the promise of a return match, all Henry Armstrong had to do to become featherweight champion was to beat Petey Sarron...
...Macomb, Ill., a freshman at Western Illinois State Teachers College gave the "hot foot"* to sleeping Red Henderson, No. 1 place-kicker on the college football team. Place-kicker Henderson awoke abruptly, took to crutches, was forced to forego place-kicking for several weeks because of a badly blistered foot...