Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sign set up in the middle of the busiest street in Nelson, New Zealand, last week, while Her Royal Highness Elizabeth, Duchess of York, was sick abed in her hotel recovering from an attack of tonsilitis. Meanwhile a pageant of 50,000 loyal New Zealanders passed in gala review before the Duke of York, second son of the King-Emperor, now en route to Australia (TIME...
...doctrines of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, and a certain stirring of religious mysticism within him which he had tried in vain to sully, down, and conquer by debauch. Perhaps in the young man's troubled mind Death and God seemed strangely opposed, for he had just come from the sick bed of a favorite grandfather, then dying of cancer of the stomach...
...message. . . . Mr. Gooding is in bed, but says: 'All right, I will come over.' . . . Mr. Stewart gave a jocular reply. I do not know just what he did say. . . . Mr. Heflin is reported as being ill and cannot come. . . ." Eight other Senators said they were sick. Twelve could not be reached. Many were routed...
...Celeste Corcoran, 20-year old Vassar senior. Treading lightly but swiftly, crawling the last few yards, she went to Riff-Raff across the cracking ice, dragged him out, wrapped him in her coat, returned to shore, glared at the men and said: 'You men make me sick and tired.'" Fraulein Clairenore Stinnes, daughter of the late famed industrialist Hugo Stinnes: "I announced last week that next May I will set out to circle the globe and visit all important countries of both hemispheres, accompanied only by two male auto mechanicians. We shall proceed as much as possible...
...methods, ideas and procedures. It often misguides individuals into the belief that they have completed their education when they have wandered successfully through its intricacies and mazes. It is difficult to train a man or woman to work largely with his hands and senses in the care of the sick when he has been brought up in the present pass-the-buck atmosphere of the ordinary hospital mechanism for the diagnosis and care of the sick. The more work done by the student and the less by the teacher, the better the product. It is not what we know...