Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vicinity of Java and the Malay Peninsula. Three distinct waves or tremors reached the University Station and by figuring the difference in time between their arrival on the Seismograph, the distance and general position of the quake was ascertained. No reports have received as yet from the stricken territory...
...Majesty in council was this day pleased to declare that having been stricken by illness he was unable for the time being to give due attention to affairs of the realm whereupon the draft of a commission . . . for the transaction of matters and things on behalf of His Majesty was this day read at the board and approved and His Majesty was further pleased to nominate Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; his Royal Highness the Duke of York; the most Reverend Father in God, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate...
Among leading English physicians the opinion was frequently heard last week that had His Majesty been stricken even five years ago by so virulent an infection he would have died within ten days. The authoritative British Medical Journal told in simple, vivid language of the new means used to strengthen and increase the number of white corpuscles in the blood royal: "The infection belongs to a type with which clinicians have become much better acquainted in the last ten years. . . . There is no set duration and no crisis. . . . There are phases or chapters on infection . . . and . . . the temperature settles slowly...
...been furnished. One of the canal's original promoters, Judge Henry Douglas Pierce of Indianapolis, who first traversed the proposed route from west to east half a century ago, was in Nicaragua on one of many missions which have brought Nicaraguan leaders to favor the project. Judge Pierce, stricken with pneumonia at Managua, missed the Hoover party but was cheered by reports that the President-Elect seemed impressed with the necessity for another canal in view of the Panama Canal's increasing crowdedness...
Most people suppose that the American Red Cross never turns a deaf ear to the appeals of famished, stricken sufferers. When reports were first current (TIME, Feb. 6 et seq.) that 12,000,000 Chinese seem likely to die of famine before next Spring, most citizens of the U. S. confidently left the whole ghastly and appalling problem to the Red Cross. If they thought about it at all, they saw in their minds' eye long lines of Chinafolk, gratefully receiving huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses. Rude therefore...