Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope is that conditions in this country -where there are more mentally sick in asylums than there are students in colleges-will be better appreciated, that more people will read ''A Mind That Found Itself," a true story of absorbing interest, and learn what wide movement also started by Mr. Beers will receive the attention, sympathy and support it deserves...
...Newland Archer; they fell in love, but Newland married a girl to whom he was engaged. Newland Archer and the Countess nearly ran away together when the horrible Count crossed the ocean to retrieve her; but Newland's wife was too feeble for the Countess, who was sick of cruelties, to injure; so Countess Olenska returned to her Count and Newland Archer stayed with his wife...
...take any expert diagnostician to say that the "old Yale spirit as dead." They should have caught the spirit when it first was taken sick and administered restoratives or something Certainly they were in the strategic position to count the pulse of Yale and they should have been able to tell when it first showed signs of feebleness...
Bandages were removed last fortnight from one Bert Ferguson's sick eye on which Dr. Ben Witt Key, Manhattan ophthalmologist, a fortnight ago had grafted another man's cornea (TIME, Nov. 12). The graft was "taking;" Bert Ferguson could see; Dr. Key had succeeded; Charles E. Greenblatt, who had supplied the cornea from his own diseased eye, was content...
Harden Franklin Taylor, 38, went from Government work (Bureau of Fisheries) to aid a sick industry (fisheries). Fish, even packed in ice, lost flavor, spoiled quickly, could be sold only near the coasts. The trouble was, he discovered, that the fish were frozen too slowly. So he invented a refrigerator for quick freezing. Now frozen fish are shipped throughout the country, housewives can vary their menus, and the Atlantic Coast Fisheries who supported the research makes money...