Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nursing has become an overcrowded profession, not because of a dearth of sick people to attend, but because of purses too slim to pay for nursing services, and because of too many nurses. The average private nurse works less than eight months a year. Her average income for the whole year is about $1,800. or $35 weekly. Nonetheless, the nursing schools threw into the surfeited market 20,000 girls last June, four times the number of young doctors graduated from the medical schools at the same time...
...sick," said Germano...
...people own most of the machines and the oil wells. The rest must work, starve or be supported by charity. And the great bulk work. Some few have learned the knack of living without work. They join the constant soup kitchen brigade. Many are too old or sick or maimed or insane. Nearly 100,000 people are in the almshouses, and more than 350,000 are in the state institutions for mental patients...
...Stanley Baldwin had said that he would take no part in a Coalition Cabinet. He changed his mind last week after he had been interviewed by King George. He entered the emergency Cabinet as a leader of the Government in the House of Commons. Liberal Lloyd George was still sick abed and Sir Herbert Samuel represented him in the new group. Meanwhile London soothsayers wagered that as soon as the emergency was passed Stanley Baldwin would become Prime Minister of Great Britain. Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Margaret Bondfield as Minister of Labor and Lord Sankey as Lord...
...danced and cracked. She reduced her passengers to impotent lumps of frightened flesh. She crushed from the firm officers who commanded her all energy and initiative, leaving behind the hulls of men who only knew that they must obey Captain Clendening. She made of able Captain Clendening a man sick and puzzled and afraid. She foundered...