Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately, the ponies, which were to have been sent "from New Haven, through the generosity of a Harvard Alumnus, were taken sick and will not be here for the game. At the close of the second period, the rival teams will, most probably, exchange mounts in order to put the teams on as equal footing as possible...
...Morrow-Lindbergh engagement was incredible not only to dream-sick young girls. Mr. Morrow's good friend and Englewood, N. J., neighbor, potent Board Chairman Seward Prosser of the Bankers' Trust Co., could not believe his ears when he heard the announcement by radio. ¶ In Mexico City, Miss Anne Spencer Morrow, 22, five-feet-five, brunette, blue-eyed, literary, bashfully quiet, shrank from the glare of being her country's Hero's fiancee. Her father let the world guess, without assistance, at the time and place of the wedding. Industrious press ferrets brought up Miss...
...Germany, asked Iron Man Schacht, like a sick man recently taken to the seaside, whose suntanned skin gives a false impression of renewed strength and abundant vitality? With an adverse trade balance of $240,000,000, how can Germany be really strong? Granted that the British taxpayer is paying $1,250,000,000 a year, the French $800,000,000, and the German only $600,000,000, even so, said Dr. Schacht, it is paradoxically true that Germany is the most heavily taxed country of all. Reason: while the Briton's and the Frenchman's tax money...
About 20 out of every 1,000 of the U. S. population, or almost two and one-half million, are sick daily. All, of course, do not call doctors. General practitioners charge from $3 to $5 for office visits, $5 to $10 for house calls...
...wanted to be champion of the world. Jack Dempsey, the champion, was punching and slashing at Tommy Gibbons. Sweat glistened on the faces of the shirt-sleeved crowd. One man fainted. It was the heat. Another man suddenly had a bleeding nose. Tommy Gibbons felt weak and sick after a while. He lost the fight and made no money. Dempsey got $300,000. Mayor Jim Johnson of Shelby, chief backer, lost $150,000. That was probably Tommy Gibbons most famous fight...