Word: wornout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William James Mayo, elder of the Rochester (Minn.) Clinic's famed Mayo brothers, went under the knife for an ailment he had often treated: perforating gastric ulcer. For a while "Dr. Will" rallied, but all the magnificent resources of the Mayo Clinic failed to save his old, wornout body. Last week Dr. Will died. He had survived his brother, Dr. Charlie, his lifelong friend and partner, by only two months. Still practicing in Rochester is the last of the Mayos, Dr. Charlie's son, 41-year-old Dr. Charles William Mayo...
...hospital. There the German guards wore him down until he gave his word that even if he ever got out of the hospital he would never again engage in any sort of pacifism. There was no suggestion of foul play last week in the death of long-ailing, wornout, beaten Nobelman Ossietsky...
...Wilson in-Klein to Blanchard least Isbelly quaking. Skaered and Struck by Crimson faking he will fall upon Booth Nees and pray for Foley clover Harding dong attack will Pope him out wash him Schwenk him make him shout for ump to say it's over. Sullivan field a wornout. Kobes he will carry Army hopes Ring the bell Little toll as Harvard's fighting team comes out in Frontczak Double czak. Harvard 21, Army 0. SoLong...
Bertha knows all about dope and the dope traffic, but says she never became an addict herself, though she tried marijuana once. To appease her insatiable curiosity she became a prostitute, found the job unexciting. "I just felt completely wornout, as though I'd finished an unusually hard day's work." The earnings varied from $50 to $200 a week, but pimps and madams took all but a Woolworth-store residue. Arrested after two months' work, 30 men a day, Bertha found herself pregnant, with two venereal diseases. While waiting for her confinement she worked...
Under such circumstances it is never pleasant to awake the next morning. Everything is so chaotic and unrecognizable, and one's head feels like a wornout battering ram. But you know all that, and you also know that the wretched one-time reveller needs humoring and kind treatment...