Word: invalidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Limping into a Mineola, N. Y. courtroom, plump, deaf Gertrude Ederle, celebrated English Channel swimmer (1926), opened suit for $50,000 damages against the Justine Apartments, where she claims she slipped on a loose stair tile in 1933, suffering a permanent spinal injury which has kept her invalid ever since...
TIME regrets and would amend an injustice to the Briggs company through its failure to mention the improvement of Briggs working conditions since 1933. After the strike of that year, President Walter Owen Briggs, a semi-invalid, came out of retirement, overhauled his management. Such disinterested investigators as Dr. Leo Wolman of Columbia University and Whiting Williams of Cleveland testify that conditions today in the Briggs plants, while not the industry's best, do now pass muster...
...Mongoloid statesman who in a struggle of many years weakened this conception and secured mutual diplomatic recognition of each other by the Soviet Union and the Rumanian Kingdom (TIME, June 18, 1934) was M. Nicholas Titulescu. His influence recently waned, he was forced to resign as Foreign Minister. An invalid on the French Riviera, he has claimed that secret agents of an unspecified power poisoned...
Near Asbury Park, N. J., Invalid Hermann Schaar, 65, had his sons push his wheelchair into the woods, sat still while his dogs rounded up game, bagged six rabbits without moving...
...solid wheat dealer of northern France, Artist Matisse dutifully began life as a lawyer's apprentice, was forced to give up his law studies when a severe attack of appendicitis left him an invalid for many months. Painting was suggested to help his convalescence and he liked it so well that he never opened a law book again...