Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenth Chief Justice of the U. S. He was dying. For a week his physicians, hopeless of his recovery, waited for his passing at any hour. But against the inevitable end he made resolute resistance. His will-to-live was strong; his affected heart, weary from a lifetime of overwork, was feeble. As his life seemed to trickle away, citizens throughout the land held their breath in sorrowful anticipation of the end of a great man whom they had honored much and loved more...
...Engineering School since 1920, died last Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in his home at 6 Clement Circle, Cambridge. Professor Hughes was suddenly taken seriously ill on February 23, following his return from the South. He had been suffering for some time from heart disease brought on by overwork, and had planned spending a sabbatical leave of absence for the second half of this academic year in England and Scotland...
Rheumatism combined with overwork have reduced Author Joyce to near-blindness : he wears thick spectacles, sometimes a black patch over his left eye. He cannot read without a magnifying glass. When he writes, he wears a white jacket with the arms of the City of Dublin embroidered on the breast pocket; uses a large red pencil. Friends reread his manuscript to him, which he corrects many times. His proofs, too, surfer, even to the fifth or sixth revision. Domestic, shy, Joyce rarely leaves home except for the opera or to dine at the famed Trianon Restaurant. Poor most...
...delegate died of overwork in those five months. Never in his life did Mr. Young have to subject himself to such severe physical discipline as then to keep going. He got away from Paris for exactly one week-end-and got back to find weeks of work virtually undone. The other delegates were at each other's throats. It took him three days to restore harmony. On three other occasions the conference was actually declared dead-but he revived it. For besides the stupendous detail and the baffling interplay of economic facts and factors, he had to cope with...