Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...militiamen, 40,000 able-bodied civilian men, 10,000 wounded, 180,000 women and children. Hospital facilities are limited and primitive. Many men with weeks-old wounds covered by filthy dressings are still unattended. Several hospital ships serve the more seriously wounded and a few of the sick have been transferred to the interior. The refugees have become a danger to the general health of adjacent communities. Families are still separated and rare is the man or woman who is not ceaselessly looking for kin. On one day a local French newspaper published gratis ten columns of refugee "personals." Typical...
...sick man was Subhas Chander Bose, who last month scored a coup by engineering his own election to the Congress Presidency against Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's wishes. But what the Congress did last week made President Bose sicker than ever. Mahatma Gandhi's prestige, having been vastly enhanced by his victorious fast (TIME, March 13) against Rajkot's ruler, which ended last week with a glass of orange juice, the Congress Working Committee voted 218-10-133 to follow the Mahatma's moderate program in the future, rather than Bose's radical one, in their...
...days later the patient's brother took the platform. Breaking into tears, he recalled Brother Bose's 26 years of service in the Congress. Moved by this harangue, the delegates voted to reconsider their stand. Next morning they were still bickering when news came that the sick man was on his way from the hospital. Quickly, before President Bose could reach the camp, the Congress reaffirmed its stand-all this while Saint Gandhi was still miles away at Rajkot. Once again, by doing nothing, the Mahatma had won a big victory...
...doctors, Hitler last month announced that beginning April first, the period of medical education will be reduced by two full years. Last week he legally recognized Heilpraktiker (healing physicians) over 25 years of age. To practice medicine all a Heilpraktiker need show is an "intuitive ability" to cure the sick and three years of successful work in healing. Purpose of licensing practitioners who would be labeled quacks in most other countries, was said to be the eradication of quackery...
...great number of sick students reflects "an abnormally high incidence of respiratory cases" throughout the country, officials of the Hygiene Department explained yesterday. They insist that Cambridge has no more illness than the rest of the country. The number of cases has not yet reached epidemic proportions, the college medical staff said...