Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Divine Metaphysics in Indianapolis. Beyond teaching Sunday school and helping at evangelistic meetings while earning his living as a druggist, "Doc" Robinson (as his friends now call him) never preached, soon came to disbelieve Christian doctrine. Said he: "My parents pumped hellfire and damnation into me until I was sick. I just vomited it up." He declares today that Heaven can be reached "here and now," that Psychiana is "God in operation." That this God-force can be utilized by people living moral lives is Doc Robinson's chief current thesis, and he has 10,000 letters...
When the Perseus and the Aafje finally reached San Pedro last week little Robert Turner was sick, Mrs. Turner was sobbing, Lillian Morgan had begun to laugh, Nurse Berdan was grim, all near hysteria. Spernak and Home, held on charges of murder, were expected to plead self-defense. The Aafje, which Jean Dee Jarnette had hoped would carry him to a remote Paradise, was promptly attached by two ship chandlers who claimed that the late Dwight Faulding owed them...
...start a legal battle against the Board which he may carry to the Supreme Court if necessary. The company announced at week's end that it would retain able Lawyer Frederick Wood of Manhattan, who contributed to the downfall of NRA as defense counsel in the Schechter ("sick chicken'') case...
...present situation honest economists do not make forecasts of business activity and if they do intelligent businessmen do not take them seriously. . . . This country is in thoroughly rotten shape. It is sick to the core with economic disorders and political diseases. In essence they are the result of more than 20 years of unsound economic policy and false economic thinking persistently pursued by both Government and the business community. . . . I believe we are now in a major depression which involves the possibility of a break-down of our economic and political organization. The chances are overwhelming that inflation will...
...Gould, one of the Commission's engineers, wired Mr. Beamish: "Plant worked by an emergency crew nearly 100 men and cost terrific." Steam was leaking through dried-up gaskets. Coffee and impromptu sandwiches were served in a room once used for repairing meters but the men felt so sick from oil fumes that they did not feel like eating anything. Mr. Beamish's engineers stood around, not helping. A little less than three days after Lawyer Kelley delivered Mr. Beamish's ultimatum, the plant was finally producing 24,000 kilowatt hours out of its capacity...