Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...testimony for 13 days at Lakehurst, N. J., the Naval Board of Inquiry investigating the causes of the wrecking of the Shenandoah, moved on to Washington for further hearings. At Lakehurst 36 witnesses had been heard, including 28 survivors of the wreck (the 29th being still in hospital too ill to testify). At Washington, examination of technical experts and others was taken. There were two incidents at the opening of the Washington hearings...
...said to have frequently forbidden his sons to fight duels in defense of his honor. And it is expected that he will accept the recent triumph of Primo de Rivera with stoicism, retire, and rest content with the verdict of good or ill fame which History must pass upon...
...banner moment, the top of his hour. After that, even if only a little, and although pushed rather by ill-luck than any failure in himself, he began to slip. In 1908 he pitched and lost the celebrated 12-inning play-off game against the Cubs which decided the National League pennant. Mordecai Brown-the pitcher with the pirate's name-worsted him in that struggle, "the hardest game," Mathewson said, "of my life." In 1914 he injured his right shoulder. Still, with speed impaired, he could win games with his curves, his strategy, his matchless fadeaway...
...Morris Fishbein, as Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is spokesman for over 90,000 physicians and surgeons- the largest body of medical men in the world. Few laymen read medical journals, for they inevitably suspect, behind the lurch and trundle of ill-teamed words, the machinations of a cloudy mind. Dr. Fishbein's words are graphic; he is possessed of what George Meredith called "the first condition of sanity"-a belief that our present civilization is founded on common sense. In a new book he shows what a neat and glittering weapon this common sense...
...days, an election was held. The choice fell on the Rev. Dr. Ernest Wilmore Stires, who lately resigned as Rector of St. Thomas Church, Manhattan, and is now Bishop Coadjutor-elect of the Diocese of Long Island. The defeated candidate was Dr. George Craig Stewart of Evanston, Ill., supported by much of the conservative, high church element yet who polled only 142 of the 532 votes...