Word: chronical
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...fallacy of this argument is that it misses the point. Suppose Dean Stone does prove that the evil is not new, is it any less real for having become chronic? Perhaps the student is too close to the issue to venture a great analysis, but this, at least, is certain: many an undergraduate who takes his college work in all seriousness cannot shake off the haunting question "After all, is it worth while...
Birth rate figures for the last nine months show French parents persisting in their now chronic refusal to maintain the race. This is a source of great worry to Gallic statesmen, but no such drastic measures have been proposed there as have recently appeared in Omaha. In the Nebraska capital city a bill is under discussion providing for the annulment of all marriages which have been deliberately unproductive after two years of opportunity. Report has it, however, that the threat to irresponsible but happy married life is not a serious one, for a storm of protest has risen to block...
...been suffering for some years from a kidney trouble which nearly resulted in her death two years ago. A few days before the end, an alleviative operation was performed. Her death was quiet; for some hours she had gradually lapsed into unconsciousness. Her death was ascribed to chronic nephritis with myocarditis and hydronephrosis as complications...
Died. Florence Kling Harding, 64, widow of President Harding; in Marion, Ohio, of chronic nephritis. (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...justice. At Pskoff the police heard tales. Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles. One teardrop, applied to a wound, healed it. By virtue of the tears, Lydia Belskaya was cured of scrofula, Nadya Kolkova of a chronic abscess, Natasha Arcipova of paralysis. Thousands of tears had been efficaciously shed. The police-themselves but humble Bolsheviks-trembled to lay hands upon the holy man who conducted so holy a shrine. But they feared Moscow more. They arrested Troitski, and Troitski confessed...