Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan today is at war-for Japan has not declared war on any country-and therefore whether or not the National Mobilization Bill would be operative as soon as passed. Premier Prince Konoye, after keeping away from as many sessions as he could on the plea that he was "sick," was finally haggled into saying that the National Mobilization Bill, even if passed, would not immediately become effective, would be administered by a commission on which would sit, promised the Premier, some members of the Seiyukai and the Minseito...
...explains his own career in terms of his temperament. His parents died before he was ten, and he was educated by a severe clergyman uncle-he would wake up at night dreaming that his mother was still alive and that he was home again. He was small, shy, sickly, and stammered badly. He confesses to an "instinctive shrinking" from his fellow men, and even when he drinks gets sick before he reaches "the state of intoxication that enables so many . . . to look upon all men as their brothers...
After undergoing an emergency operation for a ruptured appendix, Chief Boston, Varsity quarterback for two seasons, is reported as "very sick" and his condition listed as "fair" in the Baker Memorial Hospital last night...
...when every man is sick of four walls and a ceiling, when the notebook grows heavy and hateful in the hand, when Seniors try to get worried about Divisionals and can't, when Juniors first realize that they must have been studying far too hard before because they need a rest now, when Sophomores rent tandem bicycles, and when Freshmen buy their last new pair of white shoes...
When the body is diseased, however, the picture is different. Dr. Elias Lincoln Stern of Columbia believes that many sick people who take in plenty of Bt with their food are unable to utilize it because an alkaline condition of the blood or digestive tract neutralizes it. In such cases the hungry nerves snap up the vitamin, if any reaches them, like a hungry man wolfing a plate of ham and eggs. To sidestep possible alkalinity in the body, Dr. Stern administers the vitamin directly to the spine...