Word: sive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This reckless character broke down as he faced the court-martial. He sniveled: "S'elp me, Hi honly done it to sive a few bob t'buy warm clothes for me wife an' child...
...SYPHILIS SIVE MORBUS HUMANUS- Charles S. Butler, M. D., Rear Admiral (M.C.) S. Navy-Science Press (Lancaster...
...circulation: 450,000). True to the Independent Democracy of his late father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, self-effacing young Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger swung his venerable journal to the Democracy one day last month (TIME, Oct. 12), promptly reasserted its independence by sharply criticizing Franklin Roosevelt on two succes sive days, continuing to ask him such embarrassing questions as what he intends to do about reviving...
...special recognition. In 1493 a great plague of syphilis spread out of Naples, apparently carried there by Spanish troopers. Up to that time the disease had no specific name, was thereafter referred to as the Great Pox. In 1530 Girolamo Fracastoro, an Italian, produced a Latin poem entitled Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. Its hero, a shepherd named Syphilus was smitten with the Great Pox. Thus did this ancient disease finally get a literary name...