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Word: onset (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slovene name for the baby Prince. Such a trick is typical of King Alexander, would only work of course on a people as simple as his peasants. Time after time His Majesty has employed the old ruse with success. Notably he waited to proclaim himself Dictator until the onset of a rustic holiday which, for a week every year, renders most of the peasants in Jugoslavia convivially tipsy, broadly complacent at whatever their Serb King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Much in a Name | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...first stage" of the Royal case was described as "gradual in its onset . . . a general infection . . . little or no cough ... a sense of illness-yet a wish, born of quiet courage and the habit of duty, to make light of the illness and hold on to work, thus adding to the wear and tear of the fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...spread of the epidemic and the prevention of danger to those who are affected by it is entirely dependent on the care exercised by those who are taken ill with Influenza. Trued Influenza is characterized by a sudden onset of illness with fever and general body aches and pains, particularly backache and aching behind the eyes. This may be associated with nose and throat symptoms...

Author: By Paul H. Means, | Title: NOTICE | 12/21/1928 | See Source »

...Also called breakbone, dandy, stiffnecked and knockel-koorts. It is an acute, communicable disease of short duration, characterized by a sudden onset; usually with severe pains in the head, muscles, bones and joints; fever; a bounding pulse increased in rate; and an irregular eruption. The disease always terminates in recovery if no complications are present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Fever | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...industry. They who hold that Japan can do better by consciously rejecting unsuitable portions of western civilization might see more progress. Nevertheless, these suggestions place the far eastern question in a light that the ego-istic westerner seldom sees. They show Japan, far from single-minded and bent on onset against the west, in the throes of difficult and diverse evolution. Which all goes to show that the popular mind, if not the scholarly mind also, is ignorant of just where the yellow peril lies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSIDE OF NIPPON | 6/2/1926 | See Source »

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