Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graduate of the Class of 1910, world famous by the age of 26, and dead at 32, Reed lived hard, and it was only when he was fatally stricken with typhus that he gave up fighting for the Bolsheviks as he had fought for Harvard, Pancho Villa, and the Socialists...
Defense. "Democrats imply that we are so scientifically poverty stricken and that our industrial machinery is so ramshackle that everything we are going to do in the next few years will be wrong and everything the Communists do will be right. This is rotgut thinking...
...balances in his hand. And I heard a voice . . . say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine"). Hoover has something to add from his experience as food administrator in famine-stricken Europe after World War I: "Some modernist might surmise from his 'pair of scales' fixing the prices of barley and his conserving of 'oil and wine' that, in addition to being a symbol of famine, he also might have been a symbol of either a profiteer...
...endocardial fibro-elastosis. One theory so far: it begins developing in the fetus, though nobody knows why. The Singer family recurrence, says Dr. Bernard M. Wagner, a top Seattle heart specialist, "suggests lethal genes, a genetic mutant. This may be a key family in our study." For the stricken Singers last week, it was little comfort, but all they...
...Karim, the Aga Khan IV, 21-year-old spiritual leader of 10 million Moslems, dedicated a new Nairobi hospital one day last week, then quietly announced his intention to return to Harvard. Before the end of his junior year, he had taken a leave of absence to attend the stricken Aga Khan III, then assumed the throne when his grandfather died in July 1957. Now, said he, "I decided I should lose no opportunity to equip myself for the future...