Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sick animals go lame. They also slobber at the mouth and smack their lips as though trying to get rid of something. The mouth is sore from the characteristic lesions of the disease. When animals are infected they must be killed and their bodies destroyed by fire or quicklime, else buried deeply, to prevent the disease spreading to other animals. Because of such thorough eradication the U. S., which has had several epidemics of foot-&-mouth disease, now has practically no cases. In the Argentine the disease still prevails. That is one good reason for preventing the importation of Argentine...
...trunks. Ten years ago the now defunct New York Symphony went on what was the first European tour by a U. S. orchestra, made the mistake of not practicing on shipboard. Philharmonic players intended to profit by that experience, practice daily that no brass-players may be handicapped by sore lips at the opening concert. In Paris, on May 3, the Orchestra was to play first, go thence to Zurich, Milan, Turin, Rome, Florence, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Brussels, London. Already houses are sold out all along the way but, regardless, it is estimated that before...
Commenting upon the Phillips Brooks House as an example of an undergraduate organization engaged in modern and practical interpretation of religious work, independent of national organization, Dean Sperry has touched upon one of the outstanding sore spots in the organization of religious activity in the colleges...
...would be idle to deny that organized religion is sore beset in the present age. Agnosticism and atheism are on the rise...
...should suspect cancer if the patient has any lump, any persistent sore on the skin, persistent hoarseness, indigestion, or loss of appetite, or any disorder of the bowels over forty years...