Word: chronically
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...Japan's majority farmer class has been suffering for more than a decade from chronic low agricultural prices, and 75% of the Japanese Army personnel are farmers' sons. Thus the peasantry and the Army are one in blaming on the politicians and the leisure class Japan's depression which set in soon after...
Scion of "an interminable line" of not interminable Georgia preachers and physicians, Poet Dillon, since he entered the University of Chicago in 1923, has been a chronic prizewinner. At the University he won the John Billings Fisk Prize for the best poetry written by a student. Poetry, The Magazine of Verse, gave him its Young Poet's Prize, invited him to become associate editor. Boy in the Wind was the first selection of the Poetry Book Club, won the Chicago Foundation for Literature Prize. Among more personal prizes he counts the friendship of Edna St. Vincent Millay...
Pending the hearing of this burlesque claim Luther lives happily at home with Sis, works out for a poor white farmer, John Sprouse. John has chronic rheumatism which does not endear him to Sarah, his lusty-bodied wife. Her eyes roam to Luther's agile body in the fields, and there they stay. She tries to snare him, but he has the wit to stay away. Meanwhile John Sprouse's worthless brother Bengo debauches Sis, and, to forestall Luther's possible revenge, attacks him. Luther, broken-hearted about Sis, who can never pass for an Indian girl...
...mother's autographs he kept. Smart again, the Prince while serving under a British naval captain chosen by Queen Mary, gave his superior officers the slip in California, dashed off for a night of frolic in Hollywood, later escaped from the Royal Navy altogether by contracting "chronic seasickness." Next put to work at the Foreign Office and diligently tutored by its bureaucrats, H. R. H. developed symptoms so alarming that his withdrawal from the Foreign Office became imperative." It must always be borne in mind," his comptroller, Major Ulick Alexander, warned the nation on Prince George's 27th...
...radio active waters was for a short time valid. Investigators experimented by activating ordinary water. Their experiments took two directions: 1) to dissolve radium salts in water; 2) to expose water to radium emanation. Doctors thought that they had evidence that waters so treated would cure chronic arthritis, gout, neuritis, high blood pressure. The Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association soon found that quacks were selling the waters as cures for "anemia, leukemia, boils, blackheads and pimples." The A. M. A. Council on Pharmacy & Chemistry withdrew approval of devices purporting to make waters radioactive...