Word: sickest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hampshire dollars-&-cents standard, the Truman Doctrine was far more dubious than the British loan. Truman said, in effect, that when a country threatened by Communism got into really bad economic health, the U.S. would rush in and help it. If insurance were taken out only by the sickest people, insurance companies would not last very long. So the companies do not do business that way -at least, not the ones in Hartford...
...little can a full-grown man weigh and still live? Canadian doctors this week believed they had treated the sickest, lightest, most wasted man on record...
Last week ICC proposed to do something about the worst ailment that, throughout the depression, made U.S. railroads one of the sickest of sick industries. When business fell off, many a road collapsed under the monstrous overload of fixed charges represented by interest on its bonded debt. In its 57th annual report to Congress, ICC hinted that it may soon ask for legislation to convert all railroad fixed-or contingent-interest mortgage bonds into income bonds when earnings slump. Thus bondholders, like stockholders, would be paid only when earnings warranted, and the carriers would not be dragged into bankruptcy courts...
Though Harvard medicos released all but their sickest charges so that they could return to their homes for Christmas, there were still two patients in Stillman when College reopened yesterday. With an air of pseudo merriment, they lit a Christmas tree in the Infirmary and ate large Christmas dinners. Each received a game from the college...