Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Samuel F. Greene of Brown University was yesterday stricken with paralysis, and lies in a critical condition...
...buildings might bring to pass that we are compelled to take up our thankless task once more, and ask for fire-escapes on the College buildings. The only reason that can be alleged for not putting them on is the expense which it would entail upon this poverty-stricken institution. Perhaps the Corporation think it good policy to have the story get abroad that Harvard College is economical of everything but the lives of its students: we don't. But let us put the matter on a strictly financial basis. Suppose Weld takes fire and burns to the ground. Unless...
Some of the notices posted at the Law School are original, to say the least. For instance, the following: "Will the person who through mistake purloined my umbrella please return it to its grief-stricken owner and shout the beer. All will then be forgiven and forgotten." Another notice, posted not long ago, read: "Will somebody please find my knife that I lost and return...
There is a terrible epidemic of small-pox at Bethlehem, Pa. Business has been suspended, the schools closed, and an exodus of people from the stricken district is taking place...
...friend of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln denies the reports that she is nearly poverty-stricken. She has $55,000, besides her pension of $3,000 per year. He says her mind is completely wrecked, and she is insane on the question of poverty...