Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Julius Heil's hairy hands were sore and swollen from too much handshaking after his inaugural. He soaked them in basins for the news cameras and spent his first few days in office making sure his son Joseph had everything under control at the Heil Co. plant in Milwaukee. With his right hand still bandaged he pressed a button opening Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s new dam near Merrill, Wis. and sat down to a beanfeast with 275 Midwest utilitarians. Then he made a speech which sounded new indeed coming from a Governor of Wisconsin: he admonished...
Captain Pace Brickley is still the question mark as far as early season playing is concerned. His sore back has not yet improved enough to lot him engage in vigorous practice so his debut as captain is apt to be delayed until mid-season...
...German friction were left hanging. Nothing whatever was said about German (or Axial) claims to French colonies (like Algeria), protectorates (like Tunis) or mandated territories (like Cameroon, formerly German). Nor was there any mention of the moribund but unrenounced treaty of mutual aid between France and Russia, always a sore point with Germany. However, three days later the Chamber of Deputies voted (315-to-241) confidence in Premier Daladier's foreign policies, of which the French-German "friendship"' declaration is a keystone. Strangely, it was from the Right, which for 15 years scorned any diplomatic appeasement toward...
...summer people get encephalitis ("sleeping sickness") and poliomyelitis ("infantile paralysis"). In the winter people get sore throats, running noses, influenza. The fact that there are no pandemics of colds in the summer or infantile paralysis in the winter set Dr. Charles Armstrong, virus expert of the U. S. Public Health Service, to thinking. It set him thinking even harder when mice, inoculated with sleeping sickness virus, died just as often at temperatures of 42° F. as they did at temperatures of 95° F. Since sleeping sickness and infantile paralysis both enter the body through the nose, Dr. Armstrong...
...Nuncio, an Apostolic Delegate acts as liaison between the Vatican and the Catholic hierarchy of a nation. Monsignor Godfrey will have access to the British Foreign Office, may well be able to report to the Pope, at firsthand, on Britain's dealings with Germany, now the chief Catholic sore spot in Europe...