Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somewhat better than average for steady automobile workers (about $1,500 this year). In 1931 Big Tony got ten days work in the spring, was laid off until June, then worked for the rest of the year, a total of some 31 weeks. The next year he was sick for two months and his work was even more irregular. In 1933 things started to pick up, and his job held through until June 1934. In August and September of that year he got in about six weeks' time, was laid off until the middle of November. Since then...
...physical exam question, which is recorded entirely separate from sick visits, all but six Freshmen have been looked over, for a total of 944. Of the additional 414 exams given, about 250 have been athletes who are required to get a doctors certificate before reporting for practice...
Lights in the auditorium were dimmed. The photograph of a very sick man flashed on a screen. Continued Dr. Beck: "This man [on the screen] is a surgeon, a fellow of this College, who came to me because he knew of my work and had confidence in it. He had diabetes and other complications which made him a bad risk. But he said, 'You get me off the table and I'll do the rest...
Meanwhile sick Juan's healthy mother Queen Victoria Eugénie, who rushed to Manhattan when her eldest son Don Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, was nearly dying of hemophilia (TIME, Sept. 28), continued last week to prove that by firmly declining U. S. publicity it is perfectly easy to escape it. As a British Princess in her own right and a granddaughter of the late great Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria Eugénie last week visited the British Embassy in Washington as the house guest of Lady Lindsay, avoided the notoriety of meeting "those people," Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt...
...poor to bring him up properly. Pampered by his pipe-smoking old grandmother, Danny suffers from loneliness, becomes a passionate student of big-league batting records, slowly learns a few of the facts of life from the brutal disclosures of his big brother Bill. He starts school, gets sick, snitches on Bill, gets beaten up, is becoming a moody, evasive, introspective child, ill at ease both in his own home and at his grandmother's, when the book ends. Around his story revolve those of his kinspeople: Uncle Al is a shoe-salesman, a zealous defender of banal ideas...