Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sisters of Charity was modeled after the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent, France. The Sisters embrace Charity, in whose arms they live and die. They vow chastity and bind themselves to obedience. They care for the sick and poor. Their dress is black, covered with a short cape. Their white muslin cap, with a crimped border, has a black crepe band, is fastened under the chin...
Coburn was a new addition to the first squad sick list, which still contains the names of Grew and Donovan. Coburn's ailment is merely a sore ankle as a result of excessive drop kicking on Monday and is not expected to prove a permanent disability. Grew's injuries, however, are such as will probaby keep him out of the first game with Rhode Island State on Saturday
...exact moment of death is as difficult to establish with currencies as it is with persons. The German mark has long since been pronounced incurably sick, and its fever has risen beyond the ability of existing thermometers to measure it. The events of the week tend to the conclusion that its definite decease can be dated at mid-September, 1923. In a single week, the amazing output of 389,000,000,000,000 of marks - or more than all outstanding marks put together- was seen. The discount rate of the Reichsbank stood at the unparalleled rate of 90%. Individual German...
...ordered to leave, he is taken to the border under a military escort. His family, however, is granted a four days' respite. According to instructions issued on April 9 by the Commander-in-Chief, ' if the wife or any child of the expelled man is sick, the family is allowed to stay until complete recovery.' It is emphatically denied that some people had to leave on a 10 minutes' or on even a 12 hours' notice...
...French proposals, it is reported, will go far in meeting British demands and reviving the sick Entente Cordiale; they include a moratorium to Germany, a loan to France on account of future payments from Germany, complete modification of the Ruhr occupation as soon as Germany ceases passive resistance, which she is expected to do after joint Allied pressure is brought to bear, a partial evacuation of the Ruhr territory after France has secured her loan, demilitarization of the Rhineland under the auspices of the League of Nations...