Word: overworks
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...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...
...General" Mitchell marshaled battalions of statistics to show how U. S. court business has increased, cited the case of Judge Joseph West Molyneaux of Minneapolis who ''has broken down from overwork and is unable to return to the bench." On June 30 there were 149,033 cases, civil and criminal, pending in U. S. courts...
Died. John Enri dal Plaz, 63, president of the French Line, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor; in Paris; after a breakdown probably due to overwork...