Word: overwork
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...with a law-school diploma in his pocket, he set up to practice in South St. Paul, in partnership with his friend Elmer James Ryan. As a result of overwork, he came down with tuberculosis. That slowed him up for only a short while. With the help of Ryan, a Democrat, he got himself elected a Republican county attorney in 1930. He returned the favor by helping Ryan become city attorney, U. S. Congressman in 1934, again in 1936 and '38. (This year Republican Keynoter Stassen will have to decide whether he is going to support Democrat Elmer Ryan...
Limitations on the pitcher the hitter's ball, and what naturally followed--overwork--has doomed these great flingers. Committee after committee has honestly been after some system to de-rabbit the pellet and stop turning the game into cricket, but nothing has happened constructively. Perhaps this new pitching rule will help. We can only hope so. Because this is one war we want to keep...
Died. Sir John Gilmour, 63, Minister of Shipping in the Chamberlain Cabinet; of heart disease brought on by worry and overwork; in London...
Gynecologists doubt that it is now possible to figure out accurately a woman's sterile period. What jumbles all the figures is the fact that the menstrual cycle is as irregular and almost as unpredictable as the weather, easily upset by such things as colds, arguments, rainy spells, overwork...
...sarcastic wonder of many a dissident Republican, John D. M. Hamilton, GOP National Committee chief, announced he was run down from overwork, was taking a ten-day vacation...