Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holland died on October 28, the date of the death of Perey D. Haughton '99, at Battle Creek, Michigan, where he had been for a month on leave of absence. His death was due to overwork and consequent physical exhaustion, caused by his untiring efforts to bring the construction of the first vehicular tube in the world to a successful conclusion...
These operations lower the blood pressure which has been brought to an unnatural height by overwork and worry. And high blood pressure is the reason for angina pectoris...
...Hardwick, Brickley, Pennock, for example--and the coaching was as remarkable as the material. Haughton had skill, knowledge, magnetism, and, with all his fire, a common sense which kept in his mind the need of sending on the field players with their wits about them, not players deadened by overwork. This common sense he showed when suddenly called on to coach the baseball team in mid-season. He began by giving two important players a week's rest...
...Harrison finished, Cordell Hull, Chairman of the National Committee, fainted (for the third time in two days) and was carried from the platform. Overwork and too much heat...
...hoarse from overwork. He stated that in five days he had had only six hours' sleep, that the Committee had been in session until 6:00 a.m. that morning, that it had been in session until 6:30 the morning previous. (Joseph Tumulty leaned over and said to Will Rogers: "Homer is telling us a bedtime story.") But there were two planks on which the Committee could not agree: the League of Nations plank and one other "dealing with the question of religious freedom." This last they were afraid to report for fear of seriously splitting the Convention. In brief...