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Word: sicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fairies or anything else favorably presented to their notice by Elf Barrie. Last week it was Mary Queen of Scots. The bazaar was in her honor. Proceeds would go to a fund for the purchase and preservation of a house in Jedburgh where Her Majesty once lay sick abed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Seeing is Believing" | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Spring came, spring went, summer came, summer went, while Physician Loring preserved an impenetrable silence. Last week he issued one of his rare, terse statements. He announced he would enter the textile business, outstanding and lamentable sick man of the U. S. industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Textile Doctor | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...does every year at this time, that there is certain to be a vacancy in the Supreme Court before long. Mr. Associate Justice Holmes, oldest of all the high-benchers, looked as hale and bright-of-eye as ever at 87. Even Mr. Associate Justice Sutherland, 66, who was sick and absent so much of last year, looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Sturdy, English, loyal Stanley Baldwin said of his sick friend: "I want to pay the highest tribute to my colleague, Sir Austen Chamberlain. The whole country and all Europe realize the devotion, skill and patience with which he has handled our foreign affairs for four years. With health renewed, I hope he will handle them four years more. . . . A great part of Europe's progress toward peace is due to his labors, and in those labors he has nearly worn himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stanley for Stability! | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...sugar-coated public. He makes the best of the highspots: In stamping out the virulent hoof-and-mouth disease one inconspicuous scientist had millions of cattle killed and buried, to the funeral dirge of their owners' vituperations. In the hilly North, where burial space was scarce, he drove sick cattle into the valley and blasted the mountainsides to fill in a natural grave. Warned that the curse had spread to wild deer, and assured that shooting a few would scatter the rest, he directed silencers to be used on the guns. Hunters deprived of their prey stormed in wrath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sugar-Coated Science | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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