Word: ills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...periods varying from two to ten hours, sometimes several times a week, while his temperature is pushed up seven or eight degrees, he stands a good chance of recovery. Whether the intense heat kills the germs, or stimulates the body to produce germicidal substances doctors do not know. Only ill effect of intense heat was delirium, now prevented by copious draughts of salt water to replace the salts lost in sweat. Artificial fever up to 107.5° F. does not injure the brain, but the precise effect of such an abnormal temperature on mental processes has not yet been discovered...
...Reason for the "cheers was that their beloved Queen last week observed two anniversaries: her 58th birthday and the completion of her 40th year on the throne. Technically. Wilhelmina, Europe's longest-reigning sovereign,* became Queen 48 years ago on the death of her father, dissolute King Willem Ill, but Queen Mother Emma served as Regent until Wilhelmina reached 18 and was crowned...
...Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele Ill, 38 years on the throne, is second...
Franklin Roosevelt's familiar, oft-reiterated assertion that "one-third of a nation [is] ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished" has been cited by New Dealers as justification for vast Governmental spending...
...that the banks were not responsible for losses during the Skinner regime. The court found that Prima had never complained about Manager Skinner's work; had, on the contrary, indulged in "praise which amounted at times to adulation." Meanwhile, Garnett Skinner has become general manager of the Springfield, Ill. Brewing...