Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through with a leap which bettered by one half inch the mark previously set by Jones, the Crimson jumper. Probably the most spectacular per- formance, with the exception of Kane's classic in the relay, was Watters' race in the 1000. The University middle distance star was almost too sick to walk just before the race. He overcame a poor start, and fought every step of the way to shoulder ahead of a Cornell runner on the last turn and finish behind the winning Haggerty...
Wilbur--"Is Zat So?" at 8.00. It still is so, but by now we're heartily sick of the expression...
...temples of chaste white marble impart an Attic quietude to one side of Princeton University's central campus, back of Nassau Hall. In days gone by, vast quantities of glutinous flour, hose water, impossible eggs, red paint, mustard and sick fruit have hurtled against their immaculate facades what time incoming classes, while posing for their photographs, have been advised by sophomores that vanity is not pleasing to the gods. But the freshmen have always laved the temples afterward until they shone pristine and classic as before...
...maximum of seven hours a day. In addition to these short working hours, they have Saturday afternoons off during the summer and all other times when there is an excuse to close the Departments. In addition to this, they have 30 days' vacation and 30 days' sick leave, not counting Sundays or holidays. So that the average civilian employe puts in less than ten months a year...
...dizzy looking at the ever-changing sea); 4) peripheral vagus-nerve irritation (the insides get shaken up by the complicated motion of the boat and by the minute, incessant vibration of the engines); and 5) psychic stimuli (the patient sees others kharouping and vomiting over the rail and gets sick). All influence to varying degrees the maelstrom of nausea. Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious...