Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...careless and walked too much after my first operation," confessed the grizzled statesman the other day like a penitent schoolboy, 'but the second fixed me up. It was a complete success, complete' The doctors have cured everything. I am quite well again. ... I have been invited to Brazil as the guest of the Government and also to Argentina. I plan to go. After that, if the voyage is not too tiring, I should like to visit the United States...
...asepsis. Infection can cause more trouble than hypertrophy. Because the patients are usually elderly men whom ether anesthesia would make susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons prefer local anesthesia. The patient can be propped up in bed the day after his operation, sit in a chair after a week, be well in three weeks. Dangers against which the convalescent must guard include pneumonia, hiccoughing, gas on the stomach. Epsom salt is poison to the convalescent...
...letters to pilots, mechanics, apprentices and student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions safer, establish a standard wage; protect airmen from unjustifiable discharge, limit the hours of labor, promote the general well being of aircraft workers. Stirring them to this effort is their belief that airlines are thinking of cutting the pay of all classes of employes except officials. Both unionizers are friends of Col. Lindbergh...
...would be hard to imitate. His writing is ponderous, jumbled, awkward. This is typical: "Indeed, the life and light that was in her, if life and light it was, was a wholly quaint and laura-jean-shian thing, a smattering or perhaps, better yet, compote of hearsay culture as well as utility . . . plus gentility that was innate but colored by spindrift and spume concerning how ladies and gentlemen in some fabulous land of gentility (England principally, I believe; the old South next) conducted themselves...
...left to go to what was then called Peck's School, a sparse collection of school buildings on a hill a mile south of Pomfret, Conn. Within three decades he fashioned it into an orderly T-shaped array of modern Colonial dormitories and classrooms, looking confidently across wide, well kept grounds. He gathered an able faculty, capable of educating educables as well as any of the famed New England schools...