Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of TIME, on p. 27, you tell about a sick child in Montevideo and say "It died." Now a child is either a "he" or a "she" and any parent will agree with me that nothing raises said parent's ire like having his child called an "it." If you do not know the sex of a child when relating an incident, it would be perfectly permissible to repeat the words "the child" or else say "he," for that pronoun is often used to cover both sexes. I am a constant reader of TIME and like it very...
CRADLE SNATCHERS-Old women and young men occupied in amorous hilarity, which will amuse you if it does not make you a trifle sick...
...normal people expansion and contraction of the heart and the arteries go on without effort in perfect team play. But when the heart-in the worn-out or sick- must push the blood in abnormal amount or at too great speed through the arteries, these stretch, lose their elasticity, their contractile powers. They thicken in spots: thin in others. Them too the blood tries to heal; brings serum to weak spots, serum which turns gelatinous, gelatine which hardens, calcifies. The arteries become ropy, then hard like the stems of clay pipes. The patient has hardening of the arteries...
What U. S. county gives the most milk? McHenry County, Ill. What U. S. county has the most sick cows, the greatest number of infected farmyards ? What county do dairymen speak of as the "black belt?' McHenry County, Ill., at once the most fertile and the most diseased. More than 80% of the cows of this county have been shown by the tuberculin test to be tuberculous, yet McHenry County supplies Chicago with most of its milk. Last week despite supplications of "downstate" farmers, the Chicago Board of Aldermen proposed an ordinance which requires that all milk sold...
...highest medical reputation with the surest literary touch, Dr. William H. Welch, aged 75, last week left his modest home in Baltimore, traveled to Manhattan. He went upon an errand dear to his heart, to speak a word which should carry across the distance between scientist and sick...