Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME Chicago, Ill. The News-Magazine...
...TIME News-Magazine Peoria, Ill. Aug. 28, 1925 Sirs...
...Camp Grant On the old rifle range at Camp Grant, Ill., two miles from the cantonment, a Negro regiment of the Illinois National Guard was engaged in routine practice with a one-pound Howitzer. Servicing of the gun was proceeding without accident, as on countless former occasions. Black bodies bent and sweated in accustomed rhythm. Periodically gunners tugged at their lanyards, set off the propelling charge of their shells with the monotonous routine of well ordered automita...
...floor and look at faces; thousands of wall-eyed masks with halitosis, passing in slow and grave procession, the time comes for action. Somebody actually puts his hand in the leopard's cage, or forgets to register a book, or spits on the floor. Then the custodian snarls his ill-natured correction, clearly demonstrating that he is an insolent varlet who does not know his place. But for the most part he has an easy time. He just stands...
They will have a hard time at Washington where officials have already expressed themselves as displeased at the Franco-British agreement. M. Caillaux last week asked the French press to be mild in its comments?not to stir up ill feeling that will hinder the mission's work at Washington...