Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Homer St. Gaudens was seven, his father visited Robert Louis Stevenson, taking the child with him. The purpose of the visit was to make a bronze medal of the writer, who was then sick-a-bed, making his plans for a visit to the South Sea Islands. There was great difficulty in getting a pose which was not artificial and forced. The sculptor at last suggested that Stevenson write something. He picked up a sheet of paper and began, at once falling into the natural pose immortalized in the famed St. Gaudens Medal. At the end of the pose...
...done! It makes us sick...
...Porter, who for many years has been a practitioner and a teacher of Christian Science, will discuss briefly the principles of Christian Science and the practical application of the teachings of Jesus to all human problems, including healing the sick. The speaker is also a member of the Board of Lectureship of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. The lecture is open to all members of the University...
While all this was being aired, Senator Couzens was sick in bed with inflammation of the bladder...
...occurred since last Fall, and have all along remained at low levels. Such has been the fate of most leather, shipping, rubber and fertilizer shares, and it reflects something tougher than a bed of roses in these particular industries. Now stocks of other classes are beginning to "look sick." Automobile shares have gone down hill despite advertisements of the new four-wheel brakes. Steels have followed them. There is little song in the tobacco camp. On the other hand, rails have held rather well...