Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Presented to Miss DOROTHEA L. DIXBy the Secretary of War in acknowledgment of her inestimable services for the care of the sick and wounded soldiers of the United States during the War of the Rebellion...
...what for the moment is worth knowing, as an evidence of the actually significant human passion of the day, What I especially lament, then, in the journalism of the day is the too frequent absence of this ideal. Too often the newspaper appeals to the weaklings and to the sick among its readers rather than to the whole men and to the strong. As for the cure, that must come from the ability and manliness of leading journalists themselves. Given the true man, who is also a born editor, and never has lacked, and never will lack subscribers...
Morrison, one of Yale's regular halfbacks, is sick...
...held. Third, there is no interference with athletics or amusements, and many of the athletic men are workers in the cause. Some have gone to live in the slums of Edinburgh, not to distribute tracts, but to help a falling man here with material aid, and to cure a sick child there. Fourth, and most important of all, there is no interference with speculative thought. The speculative thought, the philosophy, is for the few, but religion is for all. Let each one speculate as he likes. The kingdom of heaven has twelve gates, and every gate is a pearl...
Bogart, captain of the Columbia freshman crew, is sick at New London...