Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...catering to the donors. He is the son of a late Confederate officer. He began with nothing and managed to set himself up as the proprietor of both morning and evening newspapers in his home city, Lynchburg, Va. He was elected to the State Senate while lying on a sick-bed in Manhattan. Four years later he went to Congress from which he resigned (1919) to take an appointment as Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson cabinet. When he left that post he was appointed Senator from Virginia...
...Faith Tabernacle at Lebanon, Pa. (TIME, May 19), was forcibly inoculated for diphtheria. Edwin had forbidden his flock to call physicians during an epidemic of the disease; this had resulted in quarantine of the church and of the homes of nine of the flock, by the local authorities. The sick families were then compelled to submit to medical treatment. One Mrs. Charles Roth, who had lost her husband and four children during the epidemic, would not give verbal consent to the inoculation, although she submitted peaceably...
Tsao-Kun, President of China and powerful Tuchun (War Lord), was said to be "sick and unhappy" in his Peking palace...
...scholar" and not understanding the intricacies of politics, he is at a grave disadvantage. Instead of being surrounded by an army eager to obey his command he is surrounded by an army of "corrupt, selfish, intriguing and clever" politicians eager to command him. This is why he is "sick and unhappy...
Just at present certain industries are very sick-the leather, textile and fertilizer lines are examples. Other industries are not well, and will presumably be worse before they are better ; these include iron and steel, high cost copper properties, automobiles and railroad equipment. Still other industries, like the oils, have been sick and are now getting through their convalescent period. The whole question is whether the present recession in business will broaden and lengthen into a depression, or prove only a slight halt in operations. When things get bluest will be the time to plan on renewed activity. But that...