Word: lifelong
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Some while ago he resigned a successful pastorate at the First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio to retire to a home on the headwaters of the Guadalupe River at Hunt. . . . Just a few months ago he came down to Floresville to bury his lifelong friend and comrade-in-arms, Captain Will Wright of the Texas Rangers. . . . The great crag of a man, in his closing prayer, with a level voice directed the thoughts of his listeners to "Cap" Wright's son-on foreign service along with many another Texas boy. You might never have known, except perhaps...
...Osteoarthritis-grandfather's back-breaking "rheumatism"-which is a degenerative ailment of old age, rarely appears before 40. The cause is the normal wear & tear on the joints. Yet osteoarthritis afflicts some people who have never done a lick of work in their lives, while lifelong toilers often escape it. So doctors suspect a hereditary tendency-i.e., some folk are born with tough joints, others with weak ones...
...Chachak, Serbia, in the craggy lands which he now clasps. His parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by an uncle, a musical Serbian colonel. Draja Mihailovich plays the mandolin excellently. He entered Belgrade's Serbian Military Academy at 15. He has been a lifelong soldier, an officer who got his training under fire. He is also profoundly a Serb. For those who know the Serbs, that fact alone would account for his great-hearted defiance...
Dysentery, long known as the "Bloody Flux," is Menace No. 2. There are two varieties: one, caused by bacilli, used to kill ten to 40%, can now be successfully treated with sulfaguanidine; the other, caused by Endameba histolytica, a one-celled parasite, often produces lifelong intestinal ailments. Dysentery temporarily incapacitated almost 2,000,000 men in the Civil War. Since dysentery organisms dwell in contaminated food and water, the disease can be prevented, as it was in World War I, by rigid cleanliness in cooking, strict inspection of food handlers, water and supplies...
Died. William Gibson, Lord Ashbourne. 73, lifelong foe of the use of English language or dress in Ireland; in Compiegne, France. He wore Irish kilts in the House of Lords, wrote and talked chiefly in Gaelic and French, believed the habitual use of English deformed the mouth. His sister, Violet, out of her head, shot at Benito Mussolini...